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Vice Adm. Richard Correll said that Trump’s announcement does not necessarily mean detonating a test weapon — noting that neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test in recent memory.
[Sponsored] Golden Dome’s layered architecture will have weapons and sensors in space for global coverage.
“Project Bromo is a sovereignty play,” Caleb Henry, research director at Quilty Space, told Breaking Defense.
Stakes in the joint entity, planned to be operational from 2027 once regulatory approval is secured, are split with Airbus retaining a majority of 35 percent, while Leonardo and Thales will each be allocated 32.5 percent stakes.
“Futures Command is dead,” one Pentagon official said bluntly.
Brig. Gen. Donald Brooks, deputy commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), said the command’s plan to stand up a new Space Branch is now “in the approval process” at the senior service level.
“The ADF will seek space advantage to enable freedom of action by temporally assuring access and disrupting or denying an adversary use of the space domain, as required,” states Australia’s Concept SELENE outlining military space oper…
The award will fund modification of the company’s multispectral infrared imaging payload, Quickbeam, “to add additional spectral bands” to meet military environmental monitoring needs.
The defense sector is projected to account for only nine percent of the satellites going up between 2024 and 2035, but at the same time representing a whopping 48 percent of total market value.
One analyst told Breaking Defense Golden Dome “is a motivator for sure, but this deal also provides Firefly with diversified revenue streams.”