#STRATDELA

Британский "Тайфун" на французских учениях с ядерными "Рафалями". https://x.com/CaVautrin/status/2113571420852637882

U.S. Strategic Command began its annual Global Thunder nuclear command and control exercise this morning. Global Thunder 27 involves personnel throughout the strategic enterprise, including USSTRATCOM components and subordinate units. The purpose of GT27 is to enhance nuclear readiness and ensure a safe, secure, effective and credible strategic deterrent force. This is an annual exercise and is not in response to actions by any nation, other actors or current world events. As in previous years, Global Thunder 27 may include an increase in bomber and other aircraft flights throughout the exercise. https://www.stratcom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/4629601/us-strategic-command-begins-exercise-global-thunder-27/

Ground-Launched Rusty Dagger Low-Cost Cruise Missile Seen For The First Time https://www.twz.com/sea/ground-launched-rusty-dagger-low-cost-cruise-missile-seen-for-the-first-time

If plutonium aging is not an imminent threat to the present stockpile—and by extension to US nuclear deterrence—accelerated pit production therefore signals that the United States is dangerously hurtling toward renewed nuclear competition in contravention of its legal obligations as a state party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. https://thebulletin.org/2026/10/the-us-governments-dangerous-rush-to-produce-new-plutonium-pits/

U.S. Air Force Tests Cargo Pod for Future Rocket-Based Logistics The test evaluated cargo equipment aboard SpaceX’s Starfall capsule as the U.S. Air Force continues researching commercial rocket-based logistics to enable rapid deliveries anywhere on the globe. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/10/22/us-air-force-tests-rocket-cargo-pod/

Комментарии излишни. https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/space-weapons-russia-iceye-satellites

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Last week, Russian satellite Cosmos 2612 manoeuvred into a close approach with ICEYE X36, a Finnish commercial SAR satellite. At closest approach the two were only a few kilometres apart, a very slim margin in orbit. Cosmos 2612 has since manoeuvred again to increase the distance between them. The Spaceflux optical network has been routinely observing the pair. The image here is from our Chile site and shows both objects during the close approach. Events like this show why persistent, independent tracking of space activity matters, for commercial operators and governments alike. https://lnkd.in/p/eX5hQTww

Despite the highly publicized struggles of Russia’s civilian space sector, Moscow has been consistently building up its military presence in space. Its co-orbital systems — those capable of closely trailing other satellites in orbit — are comfortably matching and possibly outperforming those operated by China and the U.S. ... Christopher Johnson, a space law researcher at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, told Supercluster that because the 1967 Outer Space Treaty fails to ban non-destructive proximity operations explicitly, Russia’s actions cannot technically be classified as illegal. However, the nations that host ICEYE operations—including Finland, the U.K., the U.S., and Poland—can use treaty mechanisms to demand that Russia cease intrusions. “Based on the Outer Space Treaty, Article IX, the states where ICEYE has offices have a right to request consultations sovereign treaty right to request consultations about what Cosmos 2612 is up to,” Johnson said. “In turn, Russia has the sovereign treaty obligation to engage in those consultations.” He added the ICEYE home states could go as far as imposing travel restrictions on diplomats and expelling them if Russia refused to cooperate. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/russia-s-manoeuvers-in-orbit-raise-concerns-of-space-attack

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took his Arsenal of Freedom tour to the swing states of Ohio and Wisconsin on Oct. 20, highlighting efforts to boost defense manufacturing before the midterm elections next month, including by visiting future E-4C “Doomsday” planes. “We plan to spend even more in the future,” Hegseth said during a visit to the Sierra Nevada Corporation in Dayton, Ohio, where he praised President Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican. ... Sierra Nevada purchased five Korean Air 747-8i jetliners and plans to convert at least four into the new E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Center, or SAOC. Hegseth championed the company, which won a $13 billion contract to build America’s next-generation nuclear command-and-control aircraft over Boeing. Shield AI was recently awarded a contract to integrate artificial intelligence into aircraft. And there are signs the Air Force may choose to grow the fleet. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/hegseth-defense-manfucturing-push-visit-future-e-4c-doomsday-planes/

اینفوگرافیک اختصاصی موشک‌های خرمشهر از سال ۱۳۹۶ تا به اکنون، نسخه‌های مختلفی از موشک‌های بالستیک خرمشهر توسط وزارت دفاع رونمایی شده‌اند. به‌طور کلی خانواده خرمشهر را می‌توان پیشرفت قابل توجهی در حوزهٔ موشک‌های بالستیک دانست. موشک‌هایی هم‌چون خرمشهر-۲، خرمشهر-۴ و نسخهٔ خوشه‌ای خرمشهر-۱ هرکدام بخشی از این روند هستند. در این اینفوگرافیک مجموعه‌ای از طراحی نسخه‌های مذکور و اطلاعاتی درباره برخی از ویژگی‌های هر نسخه را می‌توانید مشاهده کنید. @Missile_Force

Inside the Lockheed-Hadrian deal promising more munitions https://www.axios.com/2026/10/20/lockheed-hadrian-texas-munitions-production

Now we can definitively say, give or take a few feet, the B-21 spans 152 feet and is 61 feet long. This puts it at about 12% smaller in terms of wingspan than the B-2, and about the same — 12% smaller — when it comes to length. https://www.twz.com/air/we-finally-know-the-b-21-raiders-true-wingspan

Underwater-Nuclear Nexus in the Asia-Pacific: Nuclear-Powered Submarine Proliferation and Its Consequences | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network https://www.apln.network/projects/maritimeincidents/underwater-nuclear-nexus-in-the-asia-pacific-nuclear-powered-submarine-proliferation-and-its-consequences

Evolution of SSA Capabilities to Support SDA and STM https://amostech.space/year/2026/evolution-of-ssa-capabilities-to-support-sda-and-stm/

Pyongyang's Large Hypersonic Missiles | Open Nuclear Network https://opennuclear.org/en/open-nuclear-network/publication/pyongyangs-large-hypersonic-missiles

The Space Systems Command on Oct. 15 issued a sources-sought notice seeking companies capable of supporting its Counter Communications System Meadowlands fleet for roughly six years. The document says the future fleet will include at least 32 systems, while contractors should be prepared to sustain as many as 56 systems dispersed around the world. https://spacenews.com/space-force-plans-wider-global-deployment-of-satellite-jammers/

SatTrackCam Leiden (b)log: KOSMOS 2612 and ICEYE-X36: a worrisome cat-and-mouse-game in Space https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2026/10/kosmos-2612-and-iceye-x36-worrisome-cat.html?m=1