On the cover image a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle loaded with JASSM missiles

Introduction by Gospa News Editorial Staff

We relaunch an article published on the Defense One site, very close to the US Department of Defense (Pentagon), which wants to stimulate the American production of missiles as powerful JASSM according to a strategy so dear to the warmongers of the Weapons Lobby.

The JASSM ER (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile–Extended Range aka AGM-158 by Lokeed Martin, the company where worked as advisor the actual Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin) is a stealthy cruise missile intended to be used against high-value or highly-defended targets, such as command-and-control centres, communications hubs or surface-to-air missile batteries. The weapon is qualified for use on the Boeing B-1B supersonic bomber, Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber and Boeing B-52 strategic bomber.


We Don’t Have the Missiles to Stop China. Time For Drone Swarms

by Bryan Clark – originally published by Defense One

All links to Gospa News articles have been added aftermath because the ties with the analyses topics

The war in Ukraine made plain several well-known challenges with precision weapons: they are expensive, rely on complicated supply chains, and take time to build. With Russia’s invasion stretching into its second year and military leaders warning of a looming war with China, analysts, Congress, and defense officials are all arguing for dramatically increased spending on the sophisticated long-range missiles needed for war in the Indo-Pacific. 

This is a failure of both analysis and imagination by the world’s largest and most expensive defense establishment. 

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