On 9 November, NATO forces carried out a military drill in northern Norway about 500km from Russia’s Murmansk region. A long-range missile was launched in mid-air from a C-130 strategic transport aircraft. The test was the first successful one of the so-called “Rapid Dragon”, a modern weapons system developed for C-130 and C-17 aircraft, making them capable of launching Lockheed Martin AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles against targets in long distance.
“It puts this thing within range of Russia,” Special Operations Command Europe’s Lt. Col. Lawrence Melnicoff was quoted as saying of the new parachute dropped long-range missile which was tested. “We are intentionally trying to be provocative without being escalatory.”
Rapid Dragon was successfully test-fired at Norway’s Andoya Space Range, which is the country’s premiere far-northern weapons testing site.
The design looks terrible
It’s a weapon for terrorist attacks! Otherwise it makes no sense to use slow cargo aircraft as missile carrier.
Not missiles. Just dumb bombs with some gliding capacity and GPS tracker ductaped to it.
What a dumb idea to fit missiles into a transport aircraft. Can’t these muppets build bombers anymore? It must cost billions, as all useless US gear does.
>> “We are intentionally trying to be provocative without being escalatory.”<<< BUT-dear Russia, don't try the same at your own borders.. or don't even dear to do the same close at our US borders…
My favorites on this subject from ZH –
“Just wait until they hear about our catapults and hot tar buckets defense. That’ll worry ‘em.”…
“So Russia will just categorize C-130s the same as B-52s and consider their deployment as an act of aggression and a reason to shoot them down.
Cool.”….
“All you accomplished is getting C-130 designated as an attack aircraft.
Bravo”…
More proof that when the truly mentally unstable and deranged metastasizes in to abject “stupidity”!…
The only reason I see for this is to deliver false flags and terrorist attacks under cover, as USA used us with.
Looks like a great way to start a Nuclear War!
SF Please do your best to get rid of the “$ix $ided” troll brigade that keeps flooding the comment section!…
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