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Lockheed gets $321M Long Range Anti-Ship Missile contract
May 16, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control has been awarded a $321.8 million, cost-plus-incentive-fee U.S. Navy contract for research and development in support ...
Egypt approved for Harpoon missile buy
May 16, 2016 (UPI)
Egypt's procurement of Harpoon missiles for its submarines through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program has gained State Department approval. The U.S. defens...
Tamar missile fired from U.S. Army Multi-Mission Launcher
May 13, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Army successfully fired a Tamir missile from its newest launch platform April 14 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The missile successful...
Raytheon gets Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile contract
May 12, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $76 million U.S. Navy contract for long lead material procurement and Block I production requirements for the Evolve...
MBDA's Brimstone missile completes RAF trials
May 10, 2016 (UPI)
MBDA's enhanced Brimstone air-to-surface missile successfully completed U.K. Royal Air Force trials in February. The trials, undertaken at China Lake in Califor...
Jordan to buy US-made TOW missiles: company
May 10, 2016 (AFP)
Jordan has signed a contract to buy TOW anti-tank missiles from US firm Raytheon, the company said in a statement issued Tuesday at the SOFEX arms fair for spec...
This is Why Russia's S-500 Air Defense System Makes Pentagon Nervous
May 06, 2016 (Sputnik)
United States defense officials are concerned that Russia's cutting-edge S-500 missile defense system is so good that the best stealth warplanes in the Pentagon...
New U.S. Navy testing of Norwegian missile
May 06, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy plans to issue a contract to Norway's Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace for equipment and missile flight test support services. The equipment and serv...
France approved for additional Hellfire missiles
May 03, 2016 (UPI)
France has received U.S. State Department approval for the purchase of additional Hellfire missiles through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The new Fre...
Possible Australian missile buy gets State Dept. approval
Apr 26, 2016 (UPI)
An Australian request to procure AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles from the United States has gained State Department approval. The possible de...
U.S. Air Force orders 100 more JASSM-ER missiles
Apr 22, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin is to continue production of extended range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles for the U.S. Air Force, the company announced. The award for ...
China defends right to carry out 'normal' missile tests
Apr 21, 2016 (AFP)
China said on Thursday it was "normal" to carry out ballistic missile launches, after a US media report accused Beijing of having test-fired an intercontinental...
Russian Tornado-S rocket systems delivers powerful blow
Apr 20, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's state-of-the-art multiple launch rocket system Tornado-S rivals nuclear weaponry in terms of its killing power, according to the Russian news network Z...
Russia successfully fires cruise missile from Iskander missile launcher
Apr 15, 2016 (UPI)
Russian military officials successfully launched a cruise missile from the Iskander tactical ballistic missile launcher system during live fire drills in the so...
France requests GMLRS rocket launchers
Apr 13, 2016 (UPI)
State Department officials this week approved the potential $90 million sale of a number of advanced, long-range rocket launchers to the French military. France...
Terma designing air and missile defense system for Danish Navy
Apr 13, 2016 (UPI)
The Danish Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organization has contracted Terma to design an integrated air and missile defense system, or IAMD. The system will ...
Russian Helicopters announces new anti-missile system
Apr 12, 2016 (UPI)
Russian Helicopters Holding Company says it is equipping five models of its military aircraft with a new on-board system to defend against MANPAD missiles and a...
Iran takes delivery of first batch of S-300 missile systems
Apr 11, 2016 (UPI)
The first tranche of Russian-built S-300 long-range surface-to-air missile systems are en route to the Iranian military, according to senior officials in Tehran...
Pyongyang likely to deploy multiple launch rocket systems in late 2016
Apr 07, 2016 (Sputnik)
North Korea is likely to deploy a large-caliber multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) late this year, having completed the development of the weapon, South Korea...
Navy orders more missile canisters for MK 41 VLS system
Apr 07, 2016 (UPI)
Additional canisters for the storage, transport and launch of missiles are to be produced by BAE Systems for the U.S. Navy. More than 300 canisters for the MK 4...
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