Italy is the latest customer for the Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, with the country becoming an international partner in the U.S. Navy program.

Move faster and don’t be afraid to fail. That was the message from top Pentagon leaders to a group of more than a dozen company leaders on Feb. 3 during a virtual meeting urging faster adoption of hypersonic weapons in the face of Chinese advancement.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced a plan on Feb. 1 to deploy a “laser wall” in the country’s south later this year to shoot down rockets from Gaza.

The British Army has confirmed plans to join the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile program as part of a wider upgrade to the Land Deep Fires capability.

Thales Australia welcomed the move, saying it will accelerate collaboration and represented “a boost to the development of Australian sovereign hypersonic weapon capability.”

The control systems for the booster fin have been identified for the first time as the culprits behind a series of flight test failures of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon. 

U.S. Patriot missile defense batteries shot down incoming missiles at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, early Jan. 24—the second time within a week that defense systems downed incoming missiles in the area.

Spain has become the third of the four Eurofighter partner nations to induct MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile into front-line use.