Missile Defense & Weapons

An expected order for Lockheed Martin AGM-158C anti-ship missiles has been approved, according to a strategy policy issued July 1.

Some—but perhaps not all—of the U.S. military’s hypersonic weapon prototypes will be ready to enter large-scale production by the second half of the

Eager not to see a repeat of the 2014 Gripen referendum, the Swiss government aims to persuade the public of the need for new fighters.

A Republican senator’s proposal in a June 25 amendment to the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill would allow the U.S. Army to acquire Turkey’s S-400 batteries.

The idea of blasting a boost-phase ballistic weapon out of the sky with a high-energy laser mounted on an aircraft has always been ambitious, and it remains so after 20 years of failed attempts.

In what might be a rare reference to the Lockheed Martin AIM-260 program, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) slipped an authorization into the

The U.S. Defense Department chose not to fund a critical new space-based sensor for hypersonic defense, but lawmakers have stepped in to rescue the

Exquadrum announced on June 25 it has completed the second and final live test of a full-scale hybrid rocket motor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that could be used to power hypersonic missiles, missile defense interceptors and orbital space launchers.

Two factors caused the first pre-production aircraft accident just before the fighter was to be delivered to the Russian military.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Frustrated by declining funding for advanced technology programs, a key U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hinted on June 21 that control of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) could be stripped from the Pentagon’s Research and Engineering (R&E) branch led by Undersecretary Michael Griffin.

A panel of U.S. lawmakers wants the U.S. Navy to start integrating a hypersonic missile on the Zumwalt-class DDG 1000 destroyer fleet next year.

Japan is considering installing at least one Aegis system on a pontoon, following the decision on June 15 to halt a program to build two batteries on shore, the Jiji news agency reports.

An AESA radar has been in Eurofighter road map for more than a decade, but partner nations have been reluctant to make the investment.

U.S. Navy fixes EMALS issue; AARGM-ER clears design review; Germany reviews P-3 replacements; China’s quantum key advancement.

Northrop Grumman said on June 18 that the critical design review is complete for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range.

Satellites and interceptors for hypersonic defense are in development, but fielding strategy remains mostly unfunded.

Tokyo will not countenance the risk of boosters from anti-ballistic-missile interceptors falling on civilian land.

As the age of hypersonic X-planes passes, the era of Mach 5-plus weapons is set to begin.

The Pentagon is defining details of what the first block of a Defense Department-wide architecture for space-based missile warning systems would look like and will present the plan to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.

Deployment of two planned Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic-missile batteries in Japan looks improbable, following a decision to indefinitely suspend the program because of potential danger to civilians.

Critical challenges remain to be overcome before air-breathing hypersonics can be applied to wider roles.

Flight testing will increasingly augment ground tests as U.S. hypersonic development transitions to operational vehicles.

The pace of hypersonic strike systems research is picking up internationally, galvanized by developments in Russia and China.

The Houthis’ use of ballistic and cruise missiles against the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen could inadvertently widen the conflict, a study by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warns.