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With the recent news that the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program is expected to experience a Nunn-McCurdy breach, which means program costs are expected to increase by at least 15 percent, many in the arms control community are calling for termination of the program and the elimination of the ICBM leg of the nuclear […]
Why America Needs ICBMs was originally published on Global Security Review.
The fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill, passed last week, kept provisions that push the Missile Defense Agency to operate counter-hypersonic interceptors earlier than currently planned and pushed the Defense […]
The United States, Japan and South Korea said on Tuesday they activated a real-time North Korea missile warning data sharing mechanism and established a multi-year plan for trilateral exercises. Previously, […]
RTX [RTX] and the Army recently completed the second successful live-fire demonstration of the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS), this time against a tactical ballistic missile. This […]
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command is asking companies for their input on how digital engineering can aid SSC’s Epoch 2 missile warning/missile tracking effort, which is to result […]
RTX [RTX] used the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) to successfully help guide an intercept of a cruise missile type target, the company said on Monday. The […]
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded both Northrop Grumman [NOC] and RTX [RTX] another $54 million to fund further concept refinement for their hypersonic defense Glide Phase Intercept (GPI) concepts. […]
Reports from Palau suggest the mood in government is disappointing. Why? The United States Congress missed the September 30, 2023, deadline to confirm the funding of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Marshall Islands, and Palau. These three island states are in the northern Pacific and have control over the air, sea, and land […]
A Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer successfully tested the ability to intercept multiple ballistic missile and drone targets at the same time in a joint test with the Missile Defense Agency […]
Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s leading aerospace and defense technology companies, recently announced a significant milestone in its Next Generation Interceptor program. In a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, the company declared, &…