Missile Defense & Weapons

Work is underway at MBDA to enable its Spear 3 missiles to work collaboratively in a strike package under its Orchestrike system.

Naval Air Systems Command published a request for information for the CAMS weapon system, seeking a missile in the same class as the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon.

The U.S. Navy plans to buy active expendable BriteCloud decoys from Leonardo to improve the self-protection equipment of the F-35.

Listen in as editors unpack why long-range missiles in Europe and deterrence are back on the national security agenda.

“Our spending on defense is too low and ineffective ... We must invest more in high-end defense capabilities,” says EU President Ursula von der Leyen.

Both the U.S. and European members used the alliance’s latest summit to push new missile initiatives.

Australian and Canadian companies have emerged as winners in the UK’s £1 billion ($1.3 billion) effort to develop a hypersonic weapon.

German defense startup Donaustahl says it will supply Ukraine with an unspecified number of Maus loitering munitions.

As part of the review, the Pentagon rescinded the Sentinel program’s Milestone B approval from 2020.

Tehran’s proxies from the north and south launched 200 or so projectiles.

Tokyo says construction of the destroyer-sized ASEV has been expedited to begin in fiscal 2024.

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.