The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency has warned that Russia has expanded its nuclear arsenal by adding nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles, a callback to such weapons harnessed during the Cold War by the U.S. and Soviet Union.
The DIA did not offer further details in its 2025 Worldwide Threat Assessment, which was unveiled in a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations hearing on May 15 with the agency’s director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.
“Russia remains a significant aggressive and enduring threat against the United States and its neighbors,” Kruse said at the hearing. “Moscow has remained steadfast in its demands for Ukrainian neutrality, authority over the size of Ukraine’s armed forces, and further partitioning the Ukrainian state. Russia will continue its military strategy of attrition, focusing on degrading Ukraine’s ability and will to resist while facing its own significant losses of equipment and personnel.”
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