Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis

Jun 06, 2025
Attacking enemy airfields is a decades-old military objective, but new drone technology and special warfare tactics amplify the threat.
Jun 05, 2025
The UK is mulling a nuclear sharing role in NATO amid a strategic defense overhaul.
May 23, 2025
Editors discuss the pricey Golden Dome program and how the DOD is rebalancing its spending, cutting back in other areas like Army aviation modernization.
May 22, 2025
A May 20 announcement in the Oval Office marks the first step in moving the Golden Dome initiative for air and missile defense into reality at a record pace.
May 15, 2025
Stratolaunch is shifting its focus to its 747 launch platform after successful repeat flights of the first autonomous, fully reusable hypersonic test aircraft.
Feb 25, 2026
Germany approves €810M arms deal for loitering munitions, ESSM upgrades and NH90 enhancements to bolster NATO defenses.
Feb 25, 2026
Turkish defense electronics specialist Aselsan grew export sales 89% last year to $958 million and booked over $2 billion in new contracts from buyers abroad.
Feb 25, 2026
BAE Systems has become the latest big defense prime to team up with Estonian anti-drone missile developer Frankenburg Technologies.
Feb 24, 2026
Lockheed Martin plans to demonstrate a number of on-orbit capabilities related to missile defense over the next three year, a company executive said Feb. 23.
Feb 24, 2026
PBS Aerospace will supply turbojet engines for Zone 5 Technologies.
Feb 24, 2026
Ursa Major has unveiled a new hypersonic missile designed to be produced at a large scale and with the potential to be used as both a weapon and a target.
Feb 24, 2026
Italian rocket company Avio says it will build a new solid rocket motor facility in Hurt, Virginia.
Feb 24, 2026
An RFI about tail kit tech adds a new angle to the USAF's continued pursuit of a new weapon to replace the Dynetics/Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator.