Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Feb 21, 2020
While lawmakers always declare the president’s request dead on arrival on Capitol Hill, this year there was more than the usual dismissal by a rival branch of government.
Feb 21, 2020
Russian Naval aircraft’s first flight; Space Force to integrate MILsatcom; F/A-18s tested in Finland; and Turkey’s armed drone.
Feb 20, 2020
DARPA fiscal 2019 budget request targets new weapons and communications concepts for contested environments.
Feb 20, 2020
How lawmakers and the administration are responding to the most surprising proposals in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2021 budget request.
Feb 18, 2020
Next-Generation Interceptors could be emplaced in the ground by the end of the decade.
Apr 22, 2025
Northrop Grumman lost an extra $477 million on early B-21 production, raising red ink on the first five annual lots of fixed-price contracts to over $2 billion.
Apr 22, 2025
Startup Beehive Industries is on track to start ground tests of its additively manufactured Frenzy engine next month, ahead of planned altitude tests with AFRL.
Apr 21, 2025
DARPA launched a program on April 17 to develop a new solid rocket motor with a burn surface area that can be altered after manufacturing.
Apr 17, 2025
The explosion that destroyed a Northrop Grumman solid rocket motor facility in Utah will not impact the company’s operations related to the Sentinel ICBM.
Apr 16, 2025
U.S. Army officials are beginning to grasp the challenges of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome initiative.
Apr 16, 2025
Italy’s ELT Group has unveiled a new modular electromagnetically silent anti-drone system.
Apr 15, 2025
India’s defense development agency demonstrated an indigenous, land-based, high-energy laser in a live shoot-down event of a fixed-wing drone on April 13.
Apr 15, 2025
U.S. satellite launch firm Rocket Lab has joined a growing number of foreign companies to help advance hypersonic weapon capabilities for the UK.