Reduced funding slows MDA’s hypersonic interceptor development
The Missile Defense Agency's effort to field an NGI is also delayed by roughly 18 months or more, its director said.
By Jen Judson
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Next-gen air defense radar approved for low-rate production
The Army's new air and missile defense radar has been cleared for production, adding to a modernized air and missile defense architecture coming online.
By Jen Judson
Israel begins concept work on Arrow-4 defender
Israel is working with state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries and other firms to evaluate technologies needed to improve the ability to track, target and ultimately destroy threats.
By Barbara Opall-Rome
US launches unarmed ICBM from California in system test
The U.S. Air Force successfully launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California, the fourth such test this year.
New tech paves way for ballistic missile defense
Successful test intercepts demonstrate new sensor technologies.
By Adam Stone
Poland sends mixed signals on Patriot negotiations
The secretary of state at Poland’s Ministry of National Defence threatened to break off an impending deal with the U.S. government to buy Patriot air-and-missile defense systems if certain requirements for technology transfers are not met, according to a letter sent to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
By Jen Judson
Capacity, interoperability still plague European missile defense
The United States and its allies in Europe don’t have enough missile defense capability and still have a long way to go to tie all of the varying systems together into one networked web, according to the outgoing U.S. Army Europe commander.
By Jen Judson
Target practice and North Korea's missiles
There is a way to slow down North Korea’s missile program and there is no need to launch any military attack on the Pyongyang regime.
By Stephen Bryen
North Korea may have just shown a capability to strike the continental US
North Korea launched another ballistic missile Friday morning and experts believe it may have been, for the first time, an intercontinental ballistic missile with the capability to strike the continental United States.
By Tara Copp, AP, Aaron Mehta and Andrew Tilghman