Missile Defense News

October 5, 2017

China’s new Type 055 missile destroyer to upgrade reaction capability of weapons, improve country’s navy: expert

The Global Times: Media have reported that China’s new missile destroyer equips more than 100 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS), which

October 4, 2017

U.S. Missile Defense Gets $400 Million After North Korea Threat

Bloomberg: Congressional defense committees have approved shifting more than $400 million from other accounts into missile defense programs to clear

October 4, 2017

Russian military exercise features ICBM launchers

Defense News: MOSCOW — The Russian military is conducting sweeping drills that involve dozens of intercontinental ballistic missile launchers. The

October 4, 2017

Lockheed Martin Wins $80M Deal to Strengthen Missile Defense

Zacks: Defense bellwether Lockheed Martin Corporations’s business segment, Space Systems, recently secured a contract for conducting the Airborne Launch Control System

October 4, 2017

Russia to finish deployment of national missile defense system by 2025

Pravda: According to Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Golovko, Russia will complete the deployment of a

October 4, 2017

Australia to fit 9 new warships with US-built anti-missile defense systems to counter ‘rogue states’

RT: Australia’s nine new war ships, set for construction in 2020, will be armed with American-built Aegis combat management systems,

October 4, 2017

Revealed: Russia’s New Experimental ICBM Warheads

The Diplomat: Russia tested a new and experimental type of intercontinental-range ballistic missile multiple warhead delivery method in September 2017,

October 3, 2017

Putin Aide: Turkey Made Down Payment on S-400 Systems

Jewish Press: The contract with Turkey to acquire Russian S-400 missile systems from Russia is being fulfilled and the Turks

October 3, 2017

Hyten: U.S. Strategic Command is Reorganizing for 21st Century Warfighting

US Department of Defense: WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2017 — The commander of U.S. Strategic Command is reorganizing to improve its

October 3, 2017

Palestinians react to opening of first US military base in Israel

Al-Monitor: The United States and Israel announced Sept. 18 the establishment of the first permanent US-Israeli military base in the