Missile Defense & Weapons

The South Korean military has publicly unveiled the Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, which it claims is the world’s largest ballistic missile armed with a conventional warhead.

The lack of major obvious damage again showed that Israeli and U.S. missile defenses intercepted the most dangerous incoming missiles from Iran.

Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Block 50s finished the month with 45 flight hours with the ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) aboard.

The factory in England is home to the only secure facility in the UK with capability to manufacture gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors, the MOD says.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, Kyiv has relied on a steady pace of innovation in the use of UAS and other tech to fight back.

Germany is moving forward with the purchase of additional Amraam missiles and Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM).

Aviation Week's Steve Trimble is just back from a trip to Israel, including its northern border. Listen to his observations from the frontline and what the fighting tells us about the future of warfare.

Pillar II covers a bevy of advanced defense capabilities.

Aerojet will supply the first stage and the advanced, reignitable upper stages for the hit-to-kill GPI.

Likely being developed to meet Ukrainian needs, Project Brakestop will be a rapid development and procurement program.

A massive barrage showcased the might of Israel’s airpower but raised questions about potential gaps in the country’s arsenal.

The U.S. and Japan have chosen Northrop Grumman to continue development of a new long-range hypersonic defense system known as the glide phase interceptor.

The ministry of defense said the Rocket Force launched an ICBM carrying a dummy warhead on Sept. 25 at 8:44 a.m. Beijing time.

The UK’s military space efforts are not matching the change in the threat and more may need to happen, a Royal Air Force official says.

The German Space Command is exploring the possibility of launching an active in-orbit space defense project not unlike what France is pursuing.

The attack included an unspecified number of 70-km (43-mi.)-range Fadi 1 rockets and 100-km-range Fadi 2 rockets fired into Northern Israel.

Iraq is purchasing South Korea's KM-SAM II medium-range, ground-based air defense system, becoming the third Middle Eastern nation to acquire it.

Paris has revealed further details of France and Italy's plans to acquire a new version of the SAMP/T as it rushes upgrade air and missile defense capabilities.

Chinese company Zhongce Beifang Science and Technology is presenting a range of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) to Indonesia, including its LM-10 loitering munition.

The weapon has been designed under contract through a recently completed 2023 UK Defense Ministry contract.

The U.S. Space Force plans to incorporate optical crosslinks into its next wave of missile warning satellites for use in medium Earth orbit.

The French government plans to buy additional SAMP/T air and missile defense systems.

The IDF retired a fleet of Machbet anti-aircraft guns from service about 20 years ago.

The demonstration—Toutatis—will comprise the Lisa-1 space situational awareness satellite and the Splinter LEO action satellite to deal with suspicious activities.

The missile was unveiled Sept. 16 at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.