Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Apr 25, 2024
Aviation Week editors assess the recent performance of Israel’s air and missile defense umbrella and discuss new missile defense technology needed to address potential and evolving threats.
Apr 19, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Apr 19, 2024
Cost is becoming an increasing challenge to missile defense systems, even as Israel’s success against Iran shows the value of the capability.
Apr 16, 2024
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency seeks to field an “interim capability” against hypersonic glide vehicles by 2029 as the Glide Phase Interceptor slides to 2035.
Apr 05, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Feb 02, 2026
Singapore has selected the Saab Giraffe 1X radar to replace its Portable Search and Target Acquisition Radar for low-level air defense missions.
Feb 02, 2026
Specter Aerospace expects to conduct flight tests of a plasma-assisted, ramjet-powered supersonic missile in 2026, followed by tests of a larger dual-mode ramjet-scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise vehicle in 2027-28.
Feb 02, 2026
Boeing announced Feb. 2 it picked Australian company Ferra Engineering to produce wing kits for an anti-submarine torpedo for its P-8A maritime patrol aircraft.
Feb 01, 2026
ST Engineering has unveiled the EagleStrike loitering munition at the Singapore Airshow.
Feb 01, 2026
The U.S. government has approved the potential foreign military sale of Lockheed Martin Patriot PAC-3 missile interceptors to Riyadh.
Jan 30, 2026
L3Harris will deliver low-cost cruise missiles to the U.S. Marine Corps by the end of the next year under a newly awarded contract worth $86.2 million.
Jan 30, 2026
Warsaw is acquiring 18 batteries of the San counter-drone system, developed by a consortium that includes Polish Armaments Group (PGZ).
Jan 29, 2026
L3Harris expects its new Missile Solutions unit, which combines Aerojet-Rocketdyne with critical missile systems, to generate $4.4 billion in revenue this year.