Missile Defense News

September 16, 2015

Raytheon receives $87 million SM-3 Block IIA contract

Market Watch: The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon Company RTN, -0.13% $87 million to purchase long-lead materials needed to produce

September 16, 2015

Navy Integrating SeaRAM on Rota-Based DDGs; First Installation Complete In November

USNI News: The four ballistic missile defense destroyers patrolling 6th Fleet will get a self-protection upgrade beginning this year, as

September 16, 2015

Commander: IRGC Owns Unique Ballistic Missile

Tasnim News: “We possess a unique ballistic missile that, perhaps, only Russia and the US have, and it is almost

September 16, 2015

Impasse Over U.S.-Russia Nuclear Treaty Hardens As Washington Threatens ‘Countermeasures’

Radio Free Europe: WASHINGTON — Russia risks provoking “military and economic countermeasures” if it continues to stonewall over a U.S.

September 15, 2015

31st Air Defense Artillery soldiers deploy from Fort Sill

ABC 7 News: FORT SILL, Okla._Fort Sill held a deployment Monday morning for the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade. The

September 15, 2015

Branstetter returns from deployment

Bowling Green Times: US Army Spc. Daniel Branstetter returned to Ft. Hood Army Base on August 19 from a year-long

September 15, 2015

North Korea warns U.S. it’s ready to use nuclear weapons ‘any time’

CNN: In its latest bout of saber rattling, North Korea says it is ready to use nuclear weapons against the

September 14, 2015

Turkey unready to cope with missile threat in post-Patriot era

Today’s Zaman: Given the lack of an indigenous system capable of dealing with such threats, civilian and military officials are

September 14, 2015

Nuke test, missile launch by N. Korea may lead to loudspeaker broadcasts

The Korea Herald: A nuclear test or a test-launch of long-range missiles by North Korea would constitute an “abnormal situation,”

September 14, 2015

US Navy’s USS The Sullivans destroyer to begin composite training unit exercise

Naval-Technology: The US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans is set to begin composite training unit exercise, COMPTUEX.

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