Missile Defense & Weapons

RIP Boeing Phantom Express; UK offloads AWACS aircraft; CMV-22B delivery imminent; UK upgrading training helo requirements.

A new automation mode to improve strafing accuracy by F-16s also highlights a new approach to fielding new capabilities.

New Space market driving changes in competitive balance of Israel’s defense industry.

Many features of the West’s futuristic vision for a distributed command and control network is already in service by the IDF.

The Russian Navy has displayed a model of a new small missile that may be a direct successor to the Kh-25M and a complement to the Kh-38M.

Lockheed Martin has won a sixth prime contractor role in a U.S. hypersonic missile program.

The U.S. military is looking for an affordable, ground-based radar system to monitor deep-space activity.

U.S. Air Force will integrate the baseline version of the Northrop Grumman AARGM-ER on the Lockheed Martin F-35A, but as a testbed.

European countries want a counter to the hypersonic weapons being fielded by Russia and China.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says initial intelligence points to an Iranian surface-to-air missile bringing down PS752.

The U.S. Air Force intends to cancel Raytheon’s contract for a next-generation, three-dimensional, long-range radar.

E-2D sustainment starts; Dassault prizes Rafale exports; Lockheed training center graduates first class; BAE fires long-range Spike.

Israel’s defense ministry confirms Elbit Systems is developing a technology demonstrator for an aircraft self-protect laser.

U.S. MDA is focused on intercepting shorter-range threats.

The first Russian missile regiment armed with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle became operational Dec. 27.

The U.S. military has conducted its first field test of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) technology to identify and defeat a simulated cruise missile threat

Russian President Vladimir Putin referred for the first time in a speech on Dec. 24 to the “land- and sea-based” versions of the Zircon weapon.

A powered target simulating a cruise missile was shot down by a guided 2.75-in. rocket fired by a Lockheed Martin F-16 to demonstrate a relatively affordable capability to defend bases from attacks by waves of cheap cruise missiles.

Indigenous fighter development and F-35 acquisition figure heavily in South Korea’s 2020 defense budget, which will rise faster than GDP.

Though tensions with Pakistan remain high, New Delhi is struggling to spend more to modernize.

Air-launched, anti-missile interceptors and defensive lasers are set to take the next step in development.

Turkey’s defense ties with Russia are causing problems with NATO and the U.S., while local weapons development continues.

A year of change is in store for the military organizations tasked with intercepting missiles launched from another continent. In the U.S., the $160

The Pentagon’s vast hypersonic investment strategy will finally enter the flight-test stage in 2020.

The deal gives Leidos an instant foothold in Huntsville, increasingly the epicenter of U.S. missile and military space work