By Courtney Albon, Published by Defense News, 22 March 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force said it needs nearly $16 billion over five years to keep building a new class of satellites that can track missiles moving at hypersonic speeds, more than twice the previous forecast. When service leaders
By Christopher Stone, Published by The Space Review, 30 January 2023 In September 2022, the Defense Policy Board met for “classified deliberations” on how China’s “fractional orbital bombardment systems and space-to-ground weapons could impact U.S. deterrence and strategic stability.” These systems were demonstrated in August 2021 when China launched a
By Ashish Dangwai, 5 December 2022Published by The EurAsian Times, 5 December 2022 Japan and the United States will conduct extensive joint missile technology research to intercept hypersonic glide missiles deployed by China and Russia, reported Asia Nikkei on December 4. Russia has already deployed Hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs), while
By Kyle Mizokami, Published by Popular Mechanics, 1 December 2022 Through a series of enhancements, the stealthy (but controversial) Zumwalts will get a new lease on life. The U.S. Navy is eyeing a series of upgrades for its Zumwalt-class destroyers. While the upgrades would be mostly under the hood, they
By Arie Egozi, Published by Breaking Defense, 15 November 2022 The Missile Defense Directorate in the Israeli Ministry of Defense is coordinating the related projects performed by some Israel defense companies. This is funded mostly with special budgets earmarked for the need to address a very critical threat. TEL AVIV
By Campbell MacDiarmid, Published by The Jerusalem Post, 10 November 2022 Hypersonic missiles can fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound and on a complex trajectory, which makes them difficult to intercept. Iran has built a hypersonic ballistic missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the
Japan’s Type 03 surface-to-air missile. Photo: Military Wiki By Gabriel Honrada, Published by Asia Times, 9 November 2022 Surface-to-air missile upgrade aims to expand Japan’s deterrent options against China, North Korea and Russia’s hypersonic threats Japan aims to develop a hypersonic missile interceptor by remodeling its surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) to
By Emma Helfrich, Published by The Warzone, 4 October 2022 Dozens of orphaned RQ-4s will become RangeHawks under the SkyRange program to create a massively flexible, high-tempo test range complex. In August of this year, it was finally confirmed that retired Block 20 and Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawks belonging
