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
By Sakshi Tiwari, Published by The Eurasian Times, 23 September 2022 The US Missile Defense Agency is pursuing anti-hypersonic missile defense on a war footing to combat the exacerbated hypersonic missile threat from Russia and China. In a significant breakthrough toward that end, the Glide Phase Interceptor Program (GPI) has
By Naval News Staff, Published by Naval News, 22 September 2022 Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, successfully completed the Systems Requirements Review – Prototype (SRR-P) for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI). Raytheon press release GPI is designed to intercept hypersonic weapons in the glide phase of flight,
By Howard Mustoe, Published by The Telegraph, 7 September 2022 Quartet of satellites will scour the skies for threats and collect data Britain’s top defence firm BAE Systems plans to launch a quartet of satellites into orbit featuring a suite of sensors designed to scour the skies for threats. The
