North Korea test launched a new, locally developed surface-to-air missile on Sept. 30, the country’s fourth test of a new weapon in a month.

Dynetics has won a competition to field a 360-deg., counter-unmanned aircraft system and cruise missile defense system for the U.S. Army.

Stratolaunch has started installing subsystems in the first completed airframe of an initial version of the Talon-A before the start of expendable hypersonic testing early next year, the Mojave, California-based company said.

Integrating hypersonic glide missiles and scramjet-powered cruise missiles on the B-1B fleet is needed to “remain ahead of our strategic competitors,” a U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command spokesman says.

North Korea says that it successfully launched a hypersonic missile, designated Hwasong-8, on the morning of Sept. 28. 

The test by DARPA’s Hypersonic Air-breathings Weapon Concept is a key step on path to fielding a follow-on hypersonic cruise missile by the U.S. and Australian air forces later in this decade. 

Astraius wants to use a Boeing C-17 airlifter to conduct horizontal launch of its Hera II two-stage launch vehicle, which is an adaptation of the Hera target missile used by the U.S. Defense Department to test missile defense systems.

The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System Office and the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office recently completed a second demonstration of systems that can help counter small drones as the military faces a sense of urgency to stop this threat.