Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Feb 18, 2021
SOCOM plans Armed Overwatch buy; GBSD moves past initial review; GE engine to power Italian helo and Denmark bolsters Arctic defenses.
Feb 17, 2021
Developed for the fighter community, Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable decoy may now find a niche in protecting UAS.
Feb 15, 2021
Vympel is funding research into a continuation of a short-range missile project shelved decades ago.
Feb 11, 2021
Although pockmarked with failures, cruise missile development is accelerating across the world.
Feb 11, 2021
Review of UH-60 crashes sought; Northrop to participate in AAR studies; Boeing wins Harpoon contract; and DARPA’s LongShot.
Nov 28, 2025
Hanwha Aerospace has been awarded a contract to produce the L-SAM system, which will form the outermost layer of South Korea's air and missile defense network.
Nov 28, 2025
Leonardo is proposing the development of an air defense architecture that will network air defense systems with sensors and command and control facilities.
Nov 27, 2025
The head of the RAF says it will invest in missile warning sensors, command and control capabilities and work more closely with Europe to bolster its air and missile defense capability.
Nov 26, 2025
Turkey’s Aselsan and Roketsan have jointly received $6.5 billion in contracts to develop a Steel Dome air defense system for the country.
Nov 26, 2025
Germany is about to start fielding the Israeli Arrow missile defense system to give the country its first exoatmospheric ballistic threat intercept capability.
Nov 25, 2025
The U.S. Space Force has awarded the first batch of prototype contracts for the space-based interceptors (SBI) element of the Golden Dome, but details are scarce.
Nov 25, 2025
Private Chinese company Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology on Nov. 25 unveiled its Yu Kong Ji (YKJ)-1000 hypersonic missile.
Nov 25, 2025
Sweden is strengthening its short-range air defense capability by purchasing additional mobile surface-to-air missile systems.