Missile Defense News

December 22, 2017

Spending bill allocates $200M for Fort Greely interceptors

KTOO Public Media: Congress passed a short-term spending bill today that includes one longer-term project for Alaska: the bill allocates

December 22, 2017

Japan Cabinet OKs record $46 bln defense budget

AP News: TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet on Friday approved Japan’s biggest 5.19 trillion yen ($46 billion) defense

December 22, 2017

Advanced S-400 air defense missile systems enter combat duty in Russian Far East

TASS: MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The crews of the latest S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems assumed combat duty in

December 22, 2017

$4.6B for missile defense, damaged Navy ships included in stopgap spending bill

The Hill: The stopgap spending measure passed by the House on Thursday includes slightly more than $4.6 billion for missile

December 21, 2017

U.S. House unveils new stop-gap funding bill to avert shutdown

Thomson Reuters Foundation News: WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday advanced legislation to keep

December 21, 2017

DDG-51 Flight III Design Efforts Nearly Complete; Radar, Power Systems Testing in 2018

USNI News: WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer program office has completed 3D modeling of its Flight III

December 21, 2017

Governor thanks missile defense task force

The Guam Daily Post: Gov. Eddie Calvo yesterday visited soldiers of the Task Force Talon, which stands guard as Guam’s

December 21, 2017

S. Korean Army to form weaponized drone unit next year

Yonhap News Agency: SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Army will create a combat unit of weaponized drones next

December 21, 2017

Defense Is Top Item in Saudi Budget as Yemen Fighting Rages On

Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia intends to spend more on defense than anything else next year as its war against Shiite rebels

December 21, 2017

The Navy Has A New Trick to Make its Fighter Jets Even More Lethal

The National Interest: United States Navy experiments are proving that advanced airborne data-links will greatly improve the capability of the

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