By Michael Byers, Published by PeaceQuest, 28 June 2021 There have been a lot of questions surrounding Canada’s proposed new warships, also know as Canadian Surface Combatants. Writing in The Globe and Mail this week, Michael Byers points out that some of the weapons technology being considered for our fleet
By Jospeh Trevithick, Published by Warzone, 24 June 2021 The head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has suggested that portions of a future Aegis Ashore site on the strategic American island of Guam in the Pacific could go into bunkers underground or onto mobile platforms. Ostensibly, this is due
By Morgan Artyukhina, Published by Sputniknews, 18 June 2021 Just weeks ago, the Saudi government asked the US to help defend them against the Houthis or a potential attack by Iran; now the Pentagon has said the Saudis are capable of shouldering most of their defensive needs in their war
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 16 June 2021 WASHINGTON — The head of the Space Force acknowledged that the U.S. is developing the “appropriate” directed-energy systems to maintain American space superiority, although he declined to provide details in the unclassified setting of a June 16 congressional hearing. Noting that
By Bruce Gagnon, Published in Organizing Notes, 30 May 2021 THAAD, Get out! It benefits US arms corporations but brings tears to Koreans! In mid-March, this year, Lloyd Austin, the US Secretary of Defense, mentioned that it is ‘unacceptable as an alliance’ when he talked about the poor condition of
By Ed Adamczyk, Published by Space War, 28 April 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - The Missile Defense Agency did not meet 2020 goals, with only 62% of deliveries and 22% of interceptor missile tests completed, a report on Wednesday said. While the Government Accountability Office noted that MDA "made progress"
Published by Kyodo News, 21 May 2021 Tokyo - Japan is estimating the total cost for two new destroyers equipped with the Aegis missile interceptor system will reach at least 900 billion yen ($8.27 billion), more than double that for the scrapped land-based defense system plan, government sources said Friday.
By Paul Brinkmann, Published by Space Daily, 18 May 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - United Launch Alliance sent a new missile-warning satellite into orbit for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Tuesday afternoon. The Atlas V rocket lifted off at 1:37 p.m. EDT into a mostly blue sky from
