The Defense Department should invest more research-and-development funds toward efforts to eventually field a space-based early warning sensor layer in lower orbits, the U.S. military’s number-two general said Jan. 17. Speaking for the first time publicly in his role as vice chairman of the Joint ...
Missile Defense
U.S. forces were able to seek protection before a series of ballistic missiles struck two Iraqi bases Jan. 7 thanks to an American early warning system, President Trump said Wednesday. “No American or Iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken, the dispersal of forces, and an early ...
The Air Force would receive an extra $75 million for a program set to build its future early warning missile detection satellites under the fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill winding its way through Congress. The FY ‘20 national security minibus bill includes $1.47 billion in ...
The Army on Thursday completed a successful final developmental test with its future missile defense command platform, taking down two cruise missile surrogates, as the program moves toward operational testing in 2020. The intercept demonstration was the fifth flight test of the Integrated Air and ...
The Air Force conducted a flight test of a new ground-launched ballistic missile Dec. 12 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the Pentagon said Thursday. The test of the prototype intermediate-range missile was performed in partnership with the Strategic Capabilities Office, and is the ...
Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully conducted two tactical ballistic missile interception tests with the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) interceptors, the company said Thursday. The company, which builds these missiles, said the test occurred at White Sands ...
