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Raytheon awarded $92M contract for RAM ship defense missile systems
Mar 07, 2019 (UPI)
The contract is for the Block 2 guided missile round pack, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. The Block 2, which was deployed in 2015, is among three R...
Lockheed awarded $945.9M for Saudi THAAD missile system
Mar 05, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency and announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is the first purchase under a $15 billion deal for the Te...
Lockheed awarded $680M for PAC-3 missiles for foreign militaries
Mar 01, 2019 (UPI)
Lockheed was awarded a $680 million deal for Foreign Military Sales for the Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept of Target Advanced Capability-3, or Patriot...
Lockheed Martin awarded $830M for THAAD system development
Mar 01, 2019 (UPI)
The contract modification, announced Thursday by the Defense Department, will bring the value of an already existing contract for work on the Terminal High Alti...
Raytheon and General Dynamics to operate Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site
Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)
Under the $502-million, 10-year contract, RGNext will maintain the range's launch and safety systems, including radar, telemetry and optical sensors located on ...
Poland to buy US rocket system for $414 million
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
The deal, due to be signed Wednesday, will "significantly increase the Polish army's capacities," Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told journalists Sunday, ad...
U.S. Army to purchase Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system
Feb 06, 2019 (UPI)
The system is meant to protect soldiers from indirect-fire battlefield threats by intercepting and destroying incoming missiles, rockets and other artillery. De...
US Army to buy two Israeli Iron Dome air defense systems
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
Army spokesman Colonel Patrick Seiber said the deal would meet a short-term need to protect troops from "indirect fire" such as rockets and mortars. No decision...
Raytheon, Lockheed contracted for Patriot systems for foreign customers
Feb 04, 2019 (UPI)
The Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3, or Patriot PAC-3, are used to defend against incoming threats, including tactical ...
Japan approved for $2.15B buy of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems
Jan 30, 2019 (UPI)
On Tuesday, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of the possible sale. Defense News reported it was t...
Moscow urges US to abandon plans to resurrect 'Star Wars'
Jan 28, 2019 (Sputnik)
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Washington on Friday to abandon its plans to implement a missile defence system in space, noting that such a move ...
Israel Successfully Tests Arrow 3 Air Defence System
Jan 23, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Following the launch, the Arrow's radar spotted the target on its radar array and transferred the data to its fire management centre, which analyzed it and ful...
Swedish army orders Rheinmetall trucks for Patriot missile systems
Jan 23, 2019 (UPI)
Forty high-mobility trucks will be built by Rheinmetall's Munich-based MAN Military Vehicles division, including 16 tractor trucks and 24 transport vehicles bas...
Israel, US test ballistic missile interceptor
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
The test came a day after the latest deadly exchange of fire between Israel and Iranian forces operating in Syria. The Arrow 3 interceptor system, designed to s...
Trump to visit Pentagon to unveil missile defense review
Jan 17, 2019 (AFP)
Trump in 2017 ordered an analysis of US missile defense technologies and how they should be adapted to keep up with changing threats. In an executive summary of...
Trump vows to boost America's missile defense
Jan 17, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking at the Pentagon, Trump unveiled the Missile Defense Review, a long-awaited analysis of the defensive network of US interceptors that are designed to sh...
Syrian air defences shoot down Israeli missiles: state media
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
Most of the missiles fired by "Israeli military planes" were intercepted at around 11:00 pm (2100 GMT), the source said. "Only a ministry of transport warehouse...
Eyeing China, US to hold missile drill in Japan's Okinawa: report
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first suc...
Lockheed awarded $3.3B for PAC-3 missiles for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
Dec 24, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is worth a total of $3.3 billion for production of the missiles, with associated ground support equ...
Missile Defense Agency awards Lockheed Martin contract to design, manufacture and construct defense radar station in Hawaii
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
The HDR-H radar will provide autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discrimination to optimize the defensive capability of the Ballistic M...
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