Taiwan wants to be able to better counter “Grey Zone threats” posed by China, which the island says are designed by the mainland to “seize Taiwan without a fight.”
North Korea’s cruise missile advancement, shown in the September test of a natively developed missile that can reach Japan, should concern the U.S. and is a sign that deterrence needs to be strengthened on the Korean Peninsula, the head of the U.S. Marine Corps said.
The U.S. Army will reactive the 56th Artillery Command in Europe on Nov. 8 for the first time in 30 years as the military prepares to deploy new long-range missiles that become operational in 2023.
China’s nuclear stockpile will grow to 1,000 warheads by 2030, a near-quintupling of the current inventory amidst an intense push to expand a currently limited strategic arsenal within a decade, the Defense Department says in a new report to Congress.
The Indian Air Force and Defense Research and Development Organization flight tested two configurations of the Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon on Oct. 28 and Nov. 3.
The U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs on Oct. 28 conducted the second successful test of the First Stage Solid Rocket Motor, which will power the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike and the U.S. Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. John Hyten is expected to sign off this week on the latest Joint Requirements Oversight Council “strategic directive” on integrated air and missile defense, outlining capability gaps that the services need to fill for their future forces.
Two senators are urging the White House to waive impending sanctions on India for purchasing Russian-made S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missiles, saying punishing the country for the buy would derail cooperation at a time when the U.S. needs the partnership in the Indo-Pacific region.
The U.S. Navy has announced the completion of successful tests of “advanced hypersonic technologies” on three sounding rockets launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, on Oct. 20.
South Korean defense prime contractors Hanwha and LIG Nex1 are competing to provide candidates for the country’s "Korean Iron Dome" project. This is as North Korea fired a new family of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
The U.S. Defense Department has announced plans to apply modular open systems approach standards on an emerging class of directed energy weapon systems.
The Pentagon’s head of research and engineering wants hypersonics programs to become cheaper and show tangible successes in tests to convince doubters in the Pentagon that the weapons will be effective.
