Ukraine wants to build a missile market like it did with drones, top tech official says

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Workers inspect a Flamingo cruise missile at Fire Point's secret factory in Ukraine on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025.
Ukraine recently unveiled its long-range Flamingo cruise missile.

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Climb aboard the USS New Jersey, the fastest, longest, and most decorated US battleship ever built

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The USS New Jersey battleship.
The USS New Jersey battleship.

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Inside a top-secret ICBM training simulator where Air Force crews practiced for doomsday scenarios during the Cold War

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Museum mannequins inside a model of a launch control center.
Museum mannequins inside the Minuteman II missile procedures trainer.

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US weapons makers are working on making cheaper missiles before a potential war with China exposes a costly weakness

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), launches a Standard Missile 3 to intercept a ballistic missile during At-Sea Demonstration (ASD) / Formidable Shield (FS) 2025.
Navy warships have used the SM-3 to defend Israel from Iranian missile attacks.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Nye

Russia's missiles and drones run on Western tech. Here's how it keeps getting the parts.

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Dmytro Chubenko of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office stands beside the remains of a Russian-made, Iran-designed Shahed-136 drone, known as a Geran-2 in Russia, with a cheap decoy known as a Gerbera, to the left, as the prosecutor's office maintains a collection of Russian drones, glide bombs, missiles and rockets launched at Ukraine as evidence for eventual war crimes prosecutions against Russia, on July 30, 2025 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Ukraine said its modified Neptune naval missile was used to blast a Russian factory 150 miles away

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A road-mobile launcher firing a Neptune missile in testing.
A test of a Neptune missile in April 2020.

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The US Army is moving its new strike missile to a frontline Pacific ally, angering Russia and China

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A Standard Missile-6 is fired into the air from the Mid-Range Capability missile launcher. The sky is clear blue in the background.
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US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Brian A. Stippey

AIM-120 missile demand is surging. The Pentagon just signed a $3.5 billion deal to keep up.

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Air Force F-16 AIM-120D AMRAAM
A US Air Force F-16 launches an AIM-120D-3 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile at the Eglin Test and Training Range in July 2023.

US Air Force

China's missile force has Guam in its sights. The US military just took a big, first-of-its-kind step toward strengthening its defenses.

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A Standard Missile-3 interceptor launches during the test this week.
A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, as part of the test on Tuesday.

Screengrab via Missile Defense Agency

Putin gives more details on Russia's 'Oreshnik' hypersonic missile, saying its destructive elements reach over 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit

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Vladimir Putin told reporters in Kazakhstan about Russia's use of the Oreshnik missile in Ukraine.
 

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