#Long range missiles

The Pentagon has quietly taken a major step toward building the first American space-based interceptors—weapons designed to strike enemy ballistic missiles in the opening seconds after launch, while they’re still clawing upward through the atmosphere and unable to maneuver.

Ukrainian forces struck a major Russian aviation plant in the city of Taganrog overnight, destroying what defense analysts say was one of the most unusual and secretive aircraft in Russia’s inventory—the A-60 1A2, a Soviet-era airborne laser weapons platform intended to blind satellites and shoot down aircraft.

Ukraine may have just scored one of its most spectacular deep-strike hits of the war, with new footage suggesting a rare Russian A-60 airborne laser aircraft—a relic of Moscow’s experimental weapons programs—was engulfed in flames after a drone attack on the Taganrog aviation complex overnight.