NATO Chief Says Russia Violating Nuclear Treaty. No Plans For More Nuclear Missiles In Europe

RFE: NATO Chief Does Not Foresee New Nuclear Deployments In Europe

BRUSSELS -- NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says European members of the military alliance are unlikely to deploy new nuclear weapons on their soil in response to an alleged violation of a treaty between Washington and Moscow that bans medium-range missiles.

Speaking four days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Stoltenberg said on October 24 that NATO is assessing the security implications of the alleged Russian breach.

"We will, of course, assess the implications for NATO allies for our security of the new Russian missiles and the Russian behavior," Stoltenberg said. "But I don't foresee that [NATO] allies will station more nuclear weapons in Europe as a response to the new Russian missile."

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B2 Stealth Bomber Makes Emergency Landing In Colorado Springs

The Warzone/The Drive: B-2 That Made Emergency Landing In Colorado Had Engine Out, Couldn't Talk To Tower: Audio

The stealth bomber—one of only 20 in existence—made an emergency landing at Colorado Springs Airport with its #4 engine offline. 

In the wee hours of the morning, around 3:20am local time, a B-2A Spirit flying high over Colorado on a training flight from its home base at Whiteman AFB in Missouri declared an in-flight emergency. The aircraft would have to land immediately and the closest airport was in Colorado Springs. Hours after safely touching down, the bat-winged bomber—the most expensive aircraft ever made—was photographed sitting alone on the apron at Peterson AFB, which is colocated with the civilian airport. It was a strange sight indeed, especially considering these aircraft traditionally only fly out of four highly secure air bases on anything that comes close to resembling a regular basis. What brought the B-2 crew's mission to a sudden halt remained a mystery throughout the day, but now we know at least one major cause.

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U.S. Air Force Modernization Program For Air-Dropped Weapons Is Lagging

Stealth Can't Fix This: The B-2, New B-21 and F-35 All Share a Big Problem

While advances in stealth technology, targeting, aerodynamics and computer avionics all continue to progress at alarming speeds, innovations when it comes to bomb configurations have not seen a commensurate technical acceleration, service leaders say.

"The Air Force is staying focused on weapons modernization," Ray told a group of reporters at AFA.

US Air Force researchers and bomb-makers are expressing concerns that the modernization of air-dropped weapons has been lagging-behind the many technical advances built into the larger platforms that drop them, such as the B-2, F-35 and the emerging B-21. 

While advances in stealth technology, targeting, aerodynamics and computer avionics all continue to progress at alarming speeds, innovations when it comes to bomb configurations have not seen a commensurate technical acceleration, service leaders say.

“The bomb body, minus the guidance unit, is relatively unchanged. A 500-lb. bomb body was flown in 1918, and the F-35 is now dropping these. You can’t have an airplane and not have the same generation of munitions associated with it” Maj. Gen. Larry Stutzriem, USAF (Ret.) said at the Air Force Association Air, Space & Cyber Conference. 

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