Missile Defense & Weapons

General Atomics targets completion of testing of UK’s new Protector UAS by end of 2022.

Three governments have already approved funding the multibillion-euro development.

A top Global Strike Command official endorsed call for new “midrange” missiles deliverable by stealthy bomber at varying distances.

According to a report, a secretive special operations group called for the bombs using processes for quick self-defense strikes.

DRDO Chairman G. Satheesh Reddy says the nation has a road map to boost weapon sales dramatically in five years.

This webinar took place on November 29, 2021. Military tensions are on the rise, and the commercial airline industry has gone through fits and starts

New government’s platform calls for continued air, maritime surveillance investments.

Airbus Defense and Space CEO Michael Schoellhorn discusses the company’s upcoming major European programs.

Space, missile and cyber electronics rollup BlueHalo announced its latest acquisition Nov. 23 with a deal for Asymmetrik, a boutique software provider to the U.S. intelligence community.

Washington has glimpsed life after the legacy defense industry, and the potential for change is enormous.

A newly discovered data dump by the U.S. Air Force last August discloses the first details about the progress in flight test of the secretive Lockheed Martin AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile.

The U.S. military needs to catch up to China and Russia in offensive hypersonic weapons development quickly, while focusing on new ways to defend against the threat of missiles that have made the world a much more complicated place, the Space Force’s No. 2 officer said.

China’s AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute says it has completed construction of a new hypersonic wind tunnel that is reportedly able to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to Mach 8.

Test adds more than 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris.

Poland has selected MBDA’s Common Anti-air Modular Missile as the basis for its Narew short-range air defense system requirement.

The UAE says it plans to purchase South Korea’s Cheongung Block 2 surface-to-air missile in a deal that could be the country’s largest defense export, news reports say.

The emergence of a UAE-developed air-launched cruise missile provides some insight into the ambitions of the UAE’s weapon’s developers.

China’s test of a fractional orbital bombardment system and a hypersonic glide vehicle over the summer should have created more of a sense of urgency within the Pentagon, but that has not happened, the No. 2 military officer says.

Improvements made to the system will improve its capabilities against a range of aerial targets including drones and ballistic missiles.

A Russian direct-ascent anti-satellite missile test destroyed a satellite on Nov. 15, generating thousands of pieces of space debris that threaten the International Space Station (ISS) and other assets.

Technologies, data-sharing experiments in Project Convergence 21 to shape U.S. Army’s modernization priorities.

The White House is pressing Congress to approve a budget before next month’s deadline, arguing an extended continuing resolution (CR) would lead to cuts in defense spending and development delays for hypersonic weapons.

For seven weeks this fall, the U.S. Army’s vision of a conflict in the Pacific played out over the American Southwest with the goal of testing emerging technologies to the point of breaking them and guiding modernization programs at a time when the service’s boss says it needs to make ruthless decisions amid uncertain budgets.

How Taiwan can counter Chinese escalation; DARPA demos small UAS comms; Romania buys 12 Black Hawks; and testing the limits of Army precision strike missile.

The U.S. Army is confident that the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile can fly beyond 500 km after the service lost telemetry tracking data of the missile during a long-range test last month.