Cedric Leighton

This is the handiwork of a sophisticated( most likely State) actor. The precise nature of the intelligence used to conduct targeting, the mission planning that went into this to avoid radar detection, as well as the selection of the targets shows a robust capability that would most likely be the work of a government or government-sponsored group, the drones most likely originated in either Southern Iraq or Iran.

Cedric Leighton

For them, accuracy is something that they have had difficulties with in the past, but they are getting more and more accurate with each of the missile tests that we have seen.

Cedric Leighton

If there is any type of conflict in space, Diego Garcia is important in the physical sense and the communications sense, one of the jokes about Diego Garcia is that it's basically a floating aircraft carrier. You could almost say the same about Guam.

Cedric Leighton

This could potentially get into an area where there is a degree of competition between the US and China when it comes to access to the Indian Ocean.

Cedric Leighton

The latter situation would draw a lot of questions because it would imply a greater role for the military on the Mexican border than is currently authorized.

Cedric Leighton

Russia has not exported this weapon to any other nation as far as we know and it is unlikely that they will export it in the future, at the moment, the FOAB's technology would be deemed to be too sensitive to export.

Cedric Leighton

The FOAB is a thermobaric bomb, which means that its payload explodes at much higher temperatures, the result is that living things within the area of detonation are vaporized, making the FOAB a spectacularly terrible weapon.

Cedric Leighton