Missile Defense News

May 13, 2019

US Sends Assault Ship and More Missiles to Middle East Amid Iran Threat

Epoch Times – The Pentagon has approved the deployment of a Navy ship and a Patriot missile defense battery to

May 10, 2019

Powerful New Raytheon Radar Gives Navy Better Defense Against Ballistic, Hypersonic Threats

Forbes – This week the U.S. Navy League held its annual Sea Air Space Exposition near the nation’s capital, highlighting recent

May 9, 2019

Sailors Get a Firsthand Look at the Navy’s New SPY-6 Radar System

Military.com – It took two cranes and a flatbed truck to deliver it, but sailors and other spectators got an

May 9, 2019

Rep. Turner frustrated with delay in naming location for missile defense site

Dayton Daily News – Dayton-area Congressman Mike Turner, who led an effort to create an East Coast Missile Defense site,

May 8, 2019

DARPA’s R3D2: Big Company Makes Small Sat Fast

Breaking Defense – SATELLITE 2019: Northrop Grumman’s R3D2 experimental DARPA satellite hasunfurled its cutting-edge antenna and successfully gone through initialization

May 8, 2019

The Marine Corps has been looking at Israel’s Iron Dome to boost air defense

Marine Times – As the Marine Corps faces down advancing military capabilities from Russia and China and contends with the

May 8, 2019

Navy asks Northrop Grumman to provide LAIRCM laser missile defense for U.S. military large aircraft

Military & Aerospace – Missile-defense experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. will install LAIRCM laser-based missile-defense systems for large military aircraft

May 8, 2019

NATO ships start missile defence drill off Scotland

NATO – Ships from nine NATO countries are taking part in live-fire air and missile defence drills off the coast

May 7, 2019

State Department approves $2.7B Patriot system sale to UAE

UPI – The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $2.78 billion contract with the United Arab Emirates for Patriot missiles.

May 7, 2019

New destroyer to be named in honor of ex-U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn

 UPI – The U.S. Navy has named one of its future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to honor former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, the