Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Aug 20, 2020
Revealing the F-15EX’s first squadron; New F-16 sales; Russia orders Sukhoi upgrades; and NROL-44 scheduled for launch.
Aug 17, 2020
Companies will have to ramp up internal R&D spending to keep pace.
Aug 14, 2020
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aug 14, 2020
Readers write about NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, Japan’s Aegis Ashore plan and Boeing’s midmarket airplane strategy.
Aug 07, 2020
A two-year evaluation has coalesced into plans to field a sea-based interceptor as quickly as possible.
Apr 06, 2023
The U.S. Air Force wants to issue a contract in 2026 for a next-generation re-entry vehicle for its Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile.
Apr 04, 2023
The $2.6 billion package includes $2.1 billion in new equipment and another $500 million in existing equipment.
Apr 04, 2023
The U.S. Navy's so-called "hypersonic" missile will actually fly at maximum speeds below Mach 5.
Apr 03, 2023
The acquisition plans, detailed April 3, are a component of the country’s €14.8 billion ($16.1 billion) increase in defense spending between 2022 and 2025.
Apr 03, 2023
Spending over a 4-year period between fiscal '24-'27 on development and procurement across all five hypersonic weapon programs will total nearly $11.9 billion.
Mar 31, 2023
When the U.S. Space Development Agency’s first ten satellites become operational, it will mark the start of a massive change in the Pentagon’s architecture.
Mar 31, 2023
Raytheon installed a software upgrade on the SM-6 Dual II since a May 2021 setback, and it worked.
Mar 29, 2023
The awards come nearly seven months after the U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) operational prototyping program.