Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Jul 11, 2024
A Pentagon review finds an 81% cost increase, although officials determine the program must continue after being restructured.
Jul 10, 2024
GE Aerospace now boasts a validated propulsion design that will compete for use in a future class of hypersonic missiles and reusable vehicles.
Jun 13, 2024
The agency proposes a major revamp of the U.S. Army’s most advanced theater-level interceptor 16 years after the first battery was activated.
Jun 13, 2024
Following multiple failed attempts, the agency says airborne laser technology has evolved enough to deserve another shot.
May 20, 2024
As Europe faces multiple potential axes of attack, more European countries might need to reconsider their ground-based air defense plans.
Jul 15, 2024
As part of the review, the Pentagon rescinded the Sentinel program’s Milestone B approval from 2020.
Jul 12, 2024
Tehran’s proxies from the north and south launched 200 or so projectiles.
Jul 12, 2024
Tokyo says construction of the destroyer-sized ASEV has been expedited to begin in fiscal 2024.
Jul 11, 2024
France, Germany, Italy and Poland signed a memorandum of understanding at the NATO Summit to partner on the European Long Range Strike Approach (ELSA).
Jul 11, 2024
The U.S. Air Force is targeting development of ERAM—a new class of air-launched precision munition for Ukraine.
Jul 11, 2024
South Korea has contracted Hanwha Aerospace to mass produce a high-powered directed-energy weapon, which the country hopes to operationalize by year's end.
Jul 10, 2024
Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are buying 940 Stinger Block 1 missiles from Raytheon.
Jul 10, 2024
The deployments will include “developmental hypersonic weapons.”