Lockheed Completes Test for New Missile Defense Target
A Lockheed Martin prototype of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s extended medium-range ballistic missile target has been successfully tested at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the company said Monday. The eMRBM target was released from an Air Force C-17 aircraft at great than 25,000 feet of altitude during the air launch, Lockheed said. According to [...]
Raytheon Provides Navy First First Standard-Missile 6; Taylor Lawrence Comments
March 4, 2013 No Comment
Raytheon has delivered the first Standard Missile-6 weapon to the Navy for defending naval vessels against fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, drones and cruise missiles. The company is aiming to upgrade SM-6 by 2015 for protecting against ballistic missiles in the final phase of flight, the company said Thursday. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon’s missile systems [...]
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Boeing Helping Build Israel Missile Defense Interceptors; Jim Chilton Comments
February 26, 2013 No Comment
Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries have developed a new interceptor missile intending to help update Israel’s national ballistic missile defense system. Along with helping build the Arrow 3 missile, Boeing provides several interceptor components for the in-service Arrow 2 with IAI acting as prime contractor for the Arrow program, Boeing said Monday. IAI is responsible [...]
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A Raytheon system designed to integrate into blimp-like balloons detected and tracked four targets mimicking tactical ballistic missiles during a December test in New Mexico, Reuters reports. According to Jim Wolf’s story, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System has a targeting radar and wide-area surveillance radar designed to give users [...]
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Lockheed Aegis Missile Defense Intercepts Target Using Satellite-Based Info; Nick Bucci Comments
February 14, 2013 No Comment
Lockheed Martin has announced its second-generation aegis ballistic missile defense system has intercepted a missile using satellite-based information, according to a company statement. Nick Bucci, Lockheed’s mission systems and training business BMD development programs director, said the test is the first time the aegis has used information from tracking satellites to intercept a missile. ”For a [...]
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Northrop Providing Army Helicopter Missile Defense Systems; Jeffrey Palombo Comments
February 1, 2013 1 CommentNorthrop Grumman holds a $31.4 million contract to develop infrared countermeasures for the U.S. Army to use in defending helicopters against missiles, the company said Thursday. The company recently delivered the first of eight Common Infrared Countermeasures and a hardware system to the Army for reliability testing. SELEX Galileo and Daylight Solutions worked with Northrop to [...]
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Lockheed Martin Tests Missile Defense Laser System; Doug Graham Comments
November 30, 2012 No Comment
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a transportable, 10-kilowatt fiber laser designed for short-range defense against rockets and other unmanned aerial systems. According to a company statement, the Area Defense Anti-Munitions system can seek out a UAS target within a range of 1.5 to 2 kilometers. The Bethesda, Md., global security and aerospace company said it has been [...]
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