Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received an order for two of its Biological Aerosol Warning Systems (BAWS) from the Japan Ground Self Defense Force. Lockheed Martin began delivering BAWS to the Japanese military in 2004. The system consists of an array of networked, remote sensors that can provide ...
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A successful test last week of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system and its Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptor opens the door to new capabilities and missions for the venerable defensive system, showing clearly that it can take on shorter-range missiles in their final downward ...
North Korea has the capability to design and build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), even though a Taepo Dong-2 missile failed in a 2006 test, a senior U.S. missile defense official said. "North Korea has ICBM capability," said David Altwegg, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) ...
The United States defense market is trending open and Europe needs to follow suit while increasing investment needed for meaningful contributions to transatlantic initiatives if NATO hopes to remain effective militarily in the 21st Century, Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin's [LMT] CEO, president and ...
By Dave Ahearn The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign- built unitary Scud-like target missile descended inside the atmosphere, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said ...
By B.C. Kessner The United States defense market is trending open and Europe needs to follow suit while increasing investment needed for meaningful contributions to transatlantic initiatives if NATO hopes to remain effective militarily in the 21st Century, Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin's [LMT] ...
The Aegis ballistic missile defense system will be tested Thursday in the Pacific, with two interceptor missiles attempting to annihilate the short-range target missile in the terminal phase of its trajectory instead of in the midcourse, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That test by the ...
By Ann Roosevelt and Dave Ahearn The first Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) unit was activated, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That Army unit is Alpha Battery, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd Army Air & Missile Defense Command. ...
Ariane 5 Launch Postponed Again, After Glitch In Rocket A scheduled launch Friday of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Skynet 5C and the Turksat 3A satellites was canceled because of a last-minute glitch during a software test, according to Arianespace. A new mission date for liftoff from the ...
By Ann Roosevelt Alpha Battery, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd Army Air & Missile Defense Command yesterday became the first Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system battery at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Lockheed Martin [LMT] is the ...