By Paul McLeary, Published in Breaking Defense, 18 February 2021 There have been questions about the Biden Administration's missile defense plan; some of those may be answered in coming weeks WASHINGTON: The Pentagon plans to take a big step in its long and costly effort to build a new
Israel's Arrow-4 Weapon System (Israel Aerospace Industries) By Hamodia Staff, Published in hamodia.com, 18 February 2021 YERUSHALAYIM - Israel said on Thursday it is developing a new ballistic missile shield, the Arrow-4, with the United States, another layer in a defensive system built with an eye toward Iran. Israel‘s Arrow-2
Concept art from Northrop Grumman shows a potential architecture for defending against hypersonic missiles. (Northrop Grumman) By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 25 January 2021 WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency selected two companies to build prototype sensors capable of tracking hypersonic weapons from space. L3Harris and Northrop Grumman will
Lockheed Martin's fully-assembled SBIRS GEO 5 missile warning satellite moves into the Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test chamber. Image: Lockheed Martin By Staff Writers, Sunnyvale, California (SPX) - December 3, 2020 Link Lockheed Martin has announced the U.S. Space Force has determined the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
Image: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, US Air Force/Department of Defense From Haiwai'i Public Radio, 17 November 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a U.S. Navy ship at sea hit
A rocket’s-eye view shows a stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites just before orbital deployment. (SpaceX Photo) By Morgan Artyukhina, Sputnik News - October 7, 2020 The US Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded two contracts on Monday to build eight satellites for its upcoming infrared missile detection constellation. However,
Image: Wikipedia By Subrata Ghoshroy, Buletin of Atomic Scientists - 24 September, 2020 The program to develop a missile defense system to protect the United States mainland has existed in one form or another for nearly six decades. Though it was controversial from the beginning and faced nearly unsurmountable technical
