Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis

Sep 24, 2020
The Boeing-led team will compete for the Next Generation Interceptor engineering and manufacturing development contract against Lockheed Martin and a Northrop Grumman/Raytheon team. 
Sep 21, 2020
One of the few big storylines on the military aviation beat to emerge this year with no links at all to the COVID-19 pandemic is the U.S. Air Force’s…
Sep 18, 2020
Romania has accepted the first of seven planned Raytheon Patriot ground-based air defense systems. 
Sep 14, 2020
The three-phase demonstration aims to prove the C-17 can be weaponized if called upon, but top U.S. Air Force leaders have not yet decided on a specific role for the strategic airlifter.
Sep 11, 2020
The Netherlands has begun to hunt for a new medium-range air defense system to replace its Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System II.
Sep 10, 2020
A non-nuclear explosive prototype has rolled off a nuclear weapon assembly line in Texas to keep planned deliveries of the B61-12 on track for fiscal 2022.
Sep 09, 2020
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 billion contract to replace the nation’s aging intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)…
Sep 08, 2020
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is urging President Donald Trump to extend the New START arms control treaty with Russia for another five years before the agreement expires in February.