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North Korea sent more conventional weapons to Russia, South Korea says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea recently supplied additional artillery systems to Russia to support its war efforts against Ukraine, while some of the thousands of North Korean troops deployed ...
EurekAlert!

Conventional weapons and the normalisation of mass violence

Conventional weapons are generally presented as controllable, proportionate and morally acceptable, unlike weapons of mass destruction. It is this assumption that is challenged by a research conducted ...
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What makes Türkiye’s Gazap bomb one of the deadliest conventional weapons ever built?

Turkey has made its most forceful statement yet in weapons development. Just days after debuting its hypersonic Tayfun Block 4 missile, Ankara unveiled two major bombs—Gazap and NEB-2 Ghost—at the ...
American Machinist

Lockheed Wins $534M for Conventional Strike Development

The U.S. Dept. of Defense assigned a $534-million contract to Lockheed Martin Space for systems engineering and development, and testing, of the Conventional Prompt Strike component of the broader ...
The Hill

North Korea’s Kim is bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing 2 types of missiles

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised successful tests of two types of missiles — one designed to carry a “super-large conventional warhead” and the ...
Human Rights Watch

Statement to Convention on Conventional Weapons Annual Meeting Discussion on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

As a co-founder of the Stop Killer Robots campaign, Human Rights Watch fully supports its longstanding call for states to launch negotiations on a new international treaty to prohibit and regulate ...
Human Rights Watch

Statement to consultation by the Chair of the Convention on Conventional Weapon GGE on Lethal Autonomous Weapons

We appreciate the opportunity to talk with you today about the status of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on autonomous weapons systems and the latest draft of the GGE chair’s rolling text.
Associated Press

Russia has used its hypersonic Oreshnik missile for the first time. What are its capabilities?

The silent black-and-white surveillance camera video of the Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was brief but chilling: Six huge fireballs pierced the darkness and slammed into the ...
Hindustan Times

Iran’s military forces combine state-of-art drones, hackers with out-of-date conventional weapons

But the Islamic Republic's offensive capabilities have been built up over nearly 50 years, during which Iran has been either at war or under the threat of conflict. As an expert in military history ...