Collaborate Disseminate
With the aid of a Dutch De Zeven Provincien-class frigate, the US Navy destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) has used two Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Blk IA interceptors to destroy ballistic missiles while they were still in space during the Formidable S… Continue reading US Navy intercepts ballistic missiles with the aid of a Dutch frigate
The Royal Navy has used artificial intelligence to help counter live-fire supersonic missile attacks in sea trials for the first time. Part of the Formidable Shield NATO exercise involving 10 nations, 15 ships, dozens of aircraft, and about 3,300 perso… Continue reading Royal Navy pits AI systems against live supersonic missiles
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the US Navy have successfully destroyed a mock ICBM missile on the edge of space using a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile launched from the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS John Finn (DDG-113).Continu… Continue reading US Navy destroyer intercepts mock ICBM with standard missile
The US Army has awarded BAE Systems US$179 million to produce the next-generation Missile Warning System (MWS) to protect the Army’s rotorcraft. Part of the service’s Limited Interim Missile Warning System (LIMWS) Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) progra… Continue reading BAE Systems to build next-generation US Army missile warning system
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has completed a successful test of a hypersonic glide body that will be the basis for a future class of hypersonic weapons. The US Army and US Navy jointly launched the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) from the Pa… Continue reading US Department of Defense successfully tests hypersonic glide body
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories led by computational neuroscientist Frances Chance are looking to the common dragonfly for clues to develop smaller, more efficient missile defenses. By replicating the predatory insect’s brain in a… Continue reading Dragonfly brains could make missile defenses faster and more accurate
“It’s nothing but an unbroken trail of disasters with this weapon system.” Continue reading US-Made Missile Defenses Spectacularly Failed in Saudi Arabia
The missile it intercepted was probably moving slower than one fired at the US from North Korea would be. Continue reading Why You Should Be Skeptical of the US Military’s ‘Successful’ Missile Defense Test