Earlier this month, the Army conducted a set of missile defense flight tests that used a new prototype communications device that connects the battle management system to a Patriot missile interceptor. During Integrated Flight Test-2 at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on Nov. 17, Army Integrated ...
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) on Monday announced the first successful missile defense test firing of Standard Missile-3 missiles from Japanese destroyers off the coast of Hawaii. The testing occurred over a two-week event with two ...
The Israeli government and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. recently conducted an interception test of a naval version of the Iron Dome air defense system. The company and Israeli government announced the successful test on Nov. 16. The naval version of the system, dubbed the C-DOME, was ...
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] firm-fixed-price modifications to extend the current refinement of their hypersonic missile defense concepts for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program. The awards will specifically allow the companies to ...
The Biden administration’s new Missile Defense Review (MDR) maintains a push for 20 new Next Generation Interceptors while it continues to note this kind of system is only geared toward a threat like North Korea. “As North Korean ballistic missile threats to the U.S. homeland continue to evolve, ...
The unclassified version of the newest Missile Defense Review (MDR) released Thursday adds a new emphasis on homeland cruise missile defense, counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS), and defense of Guam. The Defense Department released the unclassified version of the MDR nested within the ...