Missile Defense & Weapons

France, Germany, Italy and Poland signed a memorandum of understanding at the NATO Summit to partner on the European Long Range Strike Approach (ELSA).

The U.S. Air Force is targeting development of ERAM—a new class of air-launched precision munition for Ukraine.

South Korea has contracted Hanwha Aerospace to mass produce a high-powered directed-energy weapon, which the country hopes to operationalize by year's end.

A Pentagon review finds an 81% cost increase, although officials determine the program must continue after being restructured.

Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are buying 940 Stinger Block 1 missiles from Raytheon.

The deployments will include “developmental hypersonic weapons.”

Hanwha Systems says it is moving away from working on multi-function radars in favor of developing multi-mission radars that can respond to diversified aerial threats.

Norwegian missile maker Kongsberg said the backlog of its defense and aerospace business has almost doubled over the past year, driven by demand for its Nasams air defense system.

NATO allies will send another five air defense systems to Ukraine, with dozens more set to be dispatched in the coming months.

GE Aerospace now boasts a validated propulsion design that will compete for use in a future class of hypersonic missiles and reusable vehicles.

The language is in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill.

Lithuania's order of a short-range air defense system from Saab continues the steady drumbeat of European countries upgrading their intercept capabilities.

A cannon-fired, off-board-guided, hypervelocity projectile could become a new, low-cost layer of the U.S. Army’s defenses against air and missile threats.

The Pentagon will continue with the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, despite an 81% cost increase.

The Australia department of defense announced on July 8 that it will procure an unspecified number of AeroVironment Switchblade 300 loitering munition systems.

China’s military has released an image of a Xian H-6K bomber carrying up to four air-launched ballistic missiles, doubling its previously acknowledged capacity.

The Japan ministry of defense has agreed to acquire the Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile.

Armasuisse says Switzerland is on track to order mid-range air defense equipment from Diehl Defense after MBDA and Kongsberg pulled out of the competition.

The Biden administration is accelerating delivery of the much-needed interceptors by moving Ukraine to the front of the line.

Germany’s push to bolster air and missile defense capacity is continuing, as the Bundestag’s budget committee approved funding for four more Patriot systems.

Several European nations are looking to link arms on the possible development and procurement of long-range, deep-strike weapons.

North Korea says it has developed and test-fired a new short-range ballistic missile designed Hwasong-11Da-4.5, capable of carrying a 4.5-ton payload.

The Arlington, Virginia-based defense technology named itself as one of two finalists for the Army’s Next Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM) program.

The Government Accountability Office, in a report on NGI released June 26, says the agency is making progress developing the system.

Japan is studying a new class of air defense destroyer.