Missile Defense News

January 20, 2016

New SM-3 variant faces two intercept tests this year

Space News: WASHINGTON — A new missile co-developed by the United States and Japan is expected to participate in two intercepts

January 20, 2016

Korean Missile-Defense Upgrade

The Wall Street Journal: China’s leaders are again standing by North Korea after its nuclear test by blocking serious United

January 18, 2016

Poland hopes to buy U.S. Patriot missiles

Reuters: Poland hopes to buy the American Patriot air and missile defense system, Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Saturday,

January 18, 2016

Romania Wants Permanent NATO Black Sea Force

Transitions Online: Amid heightened tensions over the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of its Crimean peninsula, NATO

January 18, 2016

U.S. Navy’s Plan for a Huge Ballistic Missile Defense Ship

The National Interest: The U.S. Navy has been in discussions with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls about the possibility of building a

January 18, 2016

Pentagon drops Maine from list of Potential missile defense sites

Reuters: The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said on Friday it had dropped a site in Redington Township, Maine, from

January 18, 2016

South Korea to Boost Its Missile Defense Program: DAPA Chief

Yonhap: SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s arms procurement agency will concentrate efforts on upgrading the country’s Patriot missiles

January 15, 2016

Belgian defence minister wants to buy Patriot missiles

Flanders News: Belgian defence minister Steven Vandeput has unveiled plans for Belgium to acquire the Patriot missile system, though the

January 15, 2016

Romania missile base changes command

Stars and Stripes: The Navy changed commanders at its missile interceptor site in southern Romania for the first time on

January 15, 2016

South Korea to review U.S. THAAD deployment on peninsula

UPI: South Korea is reconsidering the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in the wake of North Korea‘s