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Trump’s $19.5B Iron Dome plan: Next-gen interceptors, Aegis, THAAD, space tech, lasers
The IRON DOME Act comes at a time when geopolitical tensions have escalated, particularly with the advancements in missile ...
RTX Still Struggling to Deliver Navy’s Top Missile Interceptor, Pentagon Contract Agency Says
RTX Corp. is still struggling to produce the US Navy’s top air-defense missile, needed to counter a Chinese weapon known as its “aircraft carrier killer,” the Pentagon’s contract management agency ...
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Trump wants an ‘Iron Dome’ over the US. But even a mini version in the Pacific is taking a while
President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...
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Japan bolsters anti-air defense with $900 million purchase of US missiles
TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the ...
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U.S. Approves Standard Missile-6 Sale for Japan’s Aegis Destroyers
While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...
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Huntsville lost out on $832M missile defense award. Now a court could order a do-over
Raytheon claims in a federal lawsuit that the Missile Defense Agency acted in an “arbitrary and irrational” way when it chose ...
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Senators detail desired missile defense elements for Trump’s Iron Dome
Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., the senators lay out a plan for missile defense for the continental U.S. that would include Aegis Ashore systems (only two such systems exist and ...
US Quietly Arms Key Treaty Ally Near China
The Chinese military has frequently dispatched air and naval forces around Japan's islands, which form part of a blockade ...