Missile Defense News

August 10, 2016

Jenoptik wins Patriot orders in the amount of 11 million euros

Jenoptik: The overall order consists of several partial orders which the Jenoptik division received between June and August this year.

August 10, 2016

Pentagon Eyes US Iron Dome To Defend Forward-Based Forces

Defense News: Israel’s state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Raytheon, its US partner for Iron Dome production, are working to

August 10, 2016

Branson joins command as operations officer

Redstone Rocket: When a new operations officer takes over, the style may change but all things necessary to operate and

August 9, 2016

MDA orders ballistic missile targets

UPI: DULLES, Va., Aug. 9 — Medium-range ballistic target rockets are to be supplied to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency

August 9, 2016

Germany, Netherlands to test joint missile defense operations for possible eastern deployment

Reuters: COLOGNE, Germany – Germany and the Netherlands will in October test joint operations of their Patriot air and missile

August 9, 2016

USAF’s SBIRS GEO satellite delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Airforce Technology: The US Air Force’s (USAF) Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite has been delivered

August 8, 2016

Lockheed Martin flies redesigned MHTK interceptor

IHS Jane’s 360: Lockheed Martin on 29 July conducted the first controlled vehicle test flight of redesigned version of its

August 8, 2016

US guided-missile destroyer arrives in China for first time since South China Sea arbitrating ruling

International Business Times: A US warship has made it to Chinese ports for the first time since Beijing unequivocally rejected

August 8, 2016

Japan Mulls Open-Ended Missile Intercept Order Amid Repeated North Korean Missile Testing

The Diplomat: Japan is understandably not happy about North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch, which, for the first time, resulted

August 5, 2016

S Korea says it is willing to share THAAD radar intel with Japan

Japan Times: The South Korean Defense Ministry said Thursday that it could share information on North Korean missile launches obtained