Category: Missile Defence
(full document here) The next European Defence summit in Brussels will be the real test: will a fratricidal competition be chosen, or the creation of a single “Michelangelo-SkyDefender” protocol to secure the Union’s borders?...
Download here: Dynamic Evolution of Air Defense – The concept of air defense has undergone a profound transformation, moving from a static, domain-centric approach to a dynamic, interconnected network of capabilities. This evolution has...
The Department of Defense, United States Air Force (USAF), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Armament Directorate, is currently conducting a lot of market research seeking capabilities statements from...
Turkey has awarded Eurosam, Aselsan and Roketsan a contract for the definition study of the future Turkish Long Range Air and Missile Defence System. The contract award was made during the meeting of President...
The Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite will provide enhanced missile warning and defense for the U.S. Air Force SBIRS GEO Flight 3 is equipped with powerful scanning and staring sensors that collect...
Contracts will be let between now and 2019 to procure NATO satellite communications worth €1.5 billion, advanced software, and air defence capabilities. The first contracts have already been put out to tender. Koen Gijsbers,...
The South Korean vice defense minister, and his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, signed, on Dec. 29, a rare trilateral military arrangement on intelligence sharing about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes According to the...
ThalesRaytheonSystems signed a €136 million contract with NATO to produce and deploy a Theater Ballistic Missile Defense capability to be integrated with the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS). This is a great...
The U.S. Army is funding Lockheed Martin to develop hardware and software for the Extended Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) program. Under this program, Lockheed Martin has conducted the first guided test flight of...
Russia is developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the military announced Friday, in an apparent attempt to remind the United States of Moscow’s rocket capacities. read also United States is advancing better BMD technologies...
Early November the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible important potential Foreign Military Sales to the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar of Air Defence Systems in line...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Army soldiers from the 94th and 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC); U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS FITZGERALD (DDG 62); and airmen from the 613th...
read more on MEADS – Germany and Italy have urged the US to continue funding the Medium Extended Air and Missile System (MEADS) after Washington’s announcement last year to put the investment on hold after 2013....
MBDA is in talks with French and Italian authorities regarding an upgrade of its ground-based air defense missile, dubbed Aster New Technology (NT), intended to hit ballistic missiles at longer range, MBDA Chief Executive Antoine...
With defense budgets continuing to shrink, NATO will only be able to achieve its future security goals if it strictly prioritizes its resources, a top U.S. defense official said at a Feb. 28 NATO...
The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation submitted their final proposal for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic missile defense system. Following proposal submission, the companies...
NATO and Russia failed to reach a breakthrough on a missile shield project in Europe on June 8 with the Russian defense minister complaining that Moscow’s demands were falling on deaf ears. After talks...