Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Jun 17, 2020
Tokyo will not countenance the risk of boosters from anti-ballistic-missile interceptors falling on civilian land.
Jun 17, 2020
As the age of hypersonic X-planes passes, the era of Mach 5-plus weapons is set to begin.
Jun 16, 2020
Critical challenges remain to be overcome before air-breathing hypersonics can be applied to wider roles.
Jun 16, 2020
Flight testing will increasingly augment ground tests as U.S. hypersonic development transitions to operational vehicles.
Jun 15, 2020
The pace of hypersonic strike systems research is picking up internationally, galvanized by developments in Russia and China.
Oct 20, 2025
Switzerland says it plans to buy Leonardo Tactical Multi-Mission Radar systems to plug an air surveillance gap in its network.
Oct 16, 2025
Spanish defense electronics firm Indra has developed an in-house flight-testing capability supporting the development of a combat cloud network.
Oct 15, 2025
The German parliament has approved funding for the government to place a top-up order for Evolved Seasparrow missions (ESSM) to safeguard its ships.
Oct 15, 2025
Diehl’s IRIS-T SLM land-based air and missile defense system, which has been heavily used in Ukraine, has exercised its sea legs.
Oct 14, 2025
Cummings Aerospace has announced a 60-km range estimate for the 3D-printed Hellhound S3, a turbojet-powered, subsonic loitering munition and air interceptor.
Oct 14, 2025
The companies producing the highly in-demand Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced interceptor are continuing to bulk up their production capacity.
Oct 14, 2025
Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.
Oct 14, 2025
Ukraine’s ability to take down Russian drones is largely limited by the availability of systems to engage them, rather than the technology to do so, a senior U.S. Army air defense official says.