But Obama, McCain Call For Still-More Economic Sanctions On Iran, Without Specifically Calling For European Missile Defense System McCain Vows To Be Tough On Contractors; Boasts He Already Saved Money By Killing Plan To Lease Boeing Tanker Planes Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, the Democratic ...

European Missile Defense Receives $465 Million In Defense Authorization, $246 Million Under Budget Request Congress, rushing to wrap up work for the year ahead of the Nov. 4 general election, produced a compromise House-Senate defense authorization measure that cut various missile defense programs ...

Japanese Self-Defense Forces are preparing for a test of their sea-based ballistic missile defense system in the week of Nov. 17, according to Kyodo News. The test at the Pacific Missile Range near Hawaii will involve a Japanese ship fitted with a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Aegis weapons control ...

The United States needs to accelerate forming its missile defense shield now, more than ever, as enemy threats, worrisome capabilities and hostile actions mandate swift U.S. protective action, Riki Ellison, president of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, warned. Fortunately, U.S. missile ...

Updated -- September 26 - 9:20 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Minotaur Rocket Launch Site: Wallops Flight Facility - Goddard Space Flight Center Description: NASA ...

By Emelie Rutherford The House passed yesterday the final compromise versions of fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations and authorization legislation--which call for continuing DDG-1000 destroyer production while potentially reviving the DDG-51 program, extending the F-22 jet fighter line with the ...

By Geoff Fein For the past several years, defense companies had been waiting for the Navy to open up the Aegis combat system modernization contract. In May, when the Navy posted sole source solicitations to Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Federal Business Opportunities for Aegis modernization work, ...

Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems, North Korea test- fired an engine for its emergent ICBM, and the ...

Japan succeeded in using a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) interceptor to take out a target tactical ballistic missile, but a U.S. test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system had to be called off because of weak target missile performance. In the Japanese test, a target ...

Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system onto the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, the official Xinhua news ...