Lockheed Martin THAAD

Lockheed Martin is seeing growing interest in its Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to provide a 360-deg. field of vision for air and missile defense.

The company is expecting the requirement to go above the current 650 annual rate, having been asked to evaluate numbers as high as 2,000 per year.

Emirati defense firm Edge Group has completed 75% of the development of its SkyKnight short-range air defense system.

The Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 budget request carries the imprint of recent conflicts, with a big investment in air and missile defense systems.

Hanwha Systems has won a $40 million contract from South Korea's Agency for Defense Development to develop a new multi-function radar for its L-SAM-II.

The interceptors involved could include the Standard Missile, Patriot and Theater High Altitude Area Defense programs.

“The space-based part of this, I think it is not that useful or helpful in the end,” said Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

A new executive order seeks to bolster national security by reviving and expanding a massive space- and ground-based missile defense system.

China banned the export of gallium, germanium and antimony to the U.S. on Dec. 3, targeting critical minerals integral to the aerospace and defense industry.

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The Pentagon announced the THAAD deployment on Oct. 13, stating that it will augment Israel’s integrated air defense system.

A market survey released on Oct. 10 by the MDA calls for industry to submit ideas for “low-cost interceptors.”

The agency proposes a major revamp of the U.S. Army’s most advanced theater-level interceptor 16 years after the first battery was activated.

The White House has outlined concerns about the House of Representatives’ version of the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill but stopped short of veto threats.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency seeks to field an “interim capability” against hypersonic glide vehicles by 2029 as the Glide Phase Interceptor slides to 2035.

Saudi defense against a Houthi ballistic missile saturation attack has become legendary among military personnel.

Drones and rockets from Iranian-backed militias have targeted U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria 16 times in the past 10 days.

The U.S. Army is now the acquisition executive for the large-scale plan to defend Guam from air and missile threats.

The THAAD and PAC-3 MSE integration was a long, multiyear effort that was fielded and accepted earlier this year.

The government can now launch a feasibility study to “closely review the necessity and economic feasibility" of the $2.03 billion project before final approval.

A multilayered plan to defend Guam from swarming missile attacks will require a new level of integration between Army and Navy interceptor systems.

Guam's current Thaad system will not provide the kind of 360-degree defensive coverage that Guam will need, making the purchase of the land-based system a top priority, PACOM's chief says.

Lockheed wants BAE to design and manufacture a new generation of infrared seekers for THAAD.