Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Aug 14, 2020
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aug 14, 2020
Readers write about NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, Japan’s Aegis Ashore plan and Boeing’s midmarket airplane strategy.
Aug 07, 2020
A two-year evaluation has coalesced into plans to field a sea-based interceptor as quickly as possible.
Aug 05, 2020
How the Air Force Research Laboratory has put autonomous technology at the forefront of future air warfare since 2017.
Jul 29, 2020
This webinar took place July 29, 2020 and was sponsored by Raytheon Technologies. From the U.S. quest to replace its Apache helicopters to India’s…
Aug 26, 2025
India says it used a high-energy laser to down a drone as part of the first live-fire tests of its Integrated Air Defense Weapon System.
Aug 25, 2025
U.S. Navy officials canceled the service’s high-speed, air-launched, anti-ship missile program but not the goal of a missile that can defeat modern air defenses
Aug 25, 2025
York Space Systems has delivered 21 satellites ahead of the first launch of the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Aug 24, 2025
The U.S. Navy's sixth-generation fighter program, F/A-XX, appears to regain momentum as service officials say they are ready for a downselect.
Aug 22, 2025
The U.S. Space Force plans to solicit prototype designs for space-based interceptors around Sept. 5, an Aug. 21 notice says.
Aug 21, 2025
The British government says it is buying six additional MBDA Land Ceptor medium-range air defense systems to help counter uncrewed aircraft system and missile threats.
Aug 21, 2025
German defense engineering company AMDC says it has demonstrated the use of a first-person-view (FPV) interceptor to bring down a drone.
Aug 20, 2025
Lockheed Martin says it has successfully tested an inverse synthetic aperture radar automatically detecting and tracking maritime targets.