"...The U.S. military said Sunday it shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired toward a container ship by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Hours later, four boats tried to attack the same ship, but U.S. forces opened fire...Southern Red Sea and requested assistance, CENTCOM said in a statement. The USS GRAVELY and USS LABOON responded to the call"
Reference: www.newsmax.com .
"...USS Mason (DDG-87) shot down an anti-ship missile and a drone fired by the Houthis Thursday, U.S. Central Command announced via X..."
Reference: www.realcleardefense.com .
"...area near the Marine Corps’ newest base is the most developed of numerous missile-defense facilities in the works to protect America’s westernmost Pacific territory. The South Finegayan neighborhood, just south of Camp Blaz, has been home to Task Force Talon since September. The unit is part of the Army’s 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, headquartered at Sagamihara, Japan. ..."
Reference: www.stripes.com .
"...An unnamed Japanese government official told Reuters that the missiles will re-stock the US military's arsenal for the safety of the Indo-Pacific, where tensions with China and North Korea are worsening. Japan still cannot ship weapons to countries that are at war, like Ukraine, Reuters said. ..."
Reference: www.businessinsider.comMore Reading: Who produced Patriot Missiles?
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"...the U.S. should broaden its missile-defense strategy by adding a variety of sensors—including drones, aircraft, and higher-orbit satellites, according to a new report from CSIS. ..."
Reference: www.defenseone.com .
"...McCord wrote. “Failure to replenish our military services on a timely basis could harm our military’s readiness.”...replenish US weapons stockpiles, including artillery rounds, rockets and missiles"
Reference: nypost.com .
"...Operation Prosperity Guardian, a soon to be announced multi-national effort to protect Red Sea shipping comes after the U.S. and U.K. downed 15 Houthi drones Saturday. ...The Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Carney downed 14 drones today, a U.S. military official told The War Zone. The Type-45 destroyer HMS Diamond downed one drone targeting merchant shipping in the Red Sea with a Sea Viper missile, U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said in a statement. It was the first time the Royal Navy shot down an aerial target in anger since the First Gulf War in 1991 when the Type 42 Destroyer HMS Gloucester destroyed an Iraqi Silkworm missile bound for a U.S. warship."
Reference: www.thedrive.com .
"The basing decision has largely centered on two sites: Huntsville, Ala., and ...Both agencies concluded in 2022 that the Air Force followed the law when choosing Huntsville. The Pentagon, in the midst of those watchdog reviews, initiated a new selection process. Despite the conclusions from GAO and the inspector general’s office, the Biden administration announced July 31..."
Reference: www.c4isrnet.com .
"...The launch took place near the Vandenberg Space Force base in California and was part of a test to improve the Ballistic Missile Defense System. ..."This successful intercept utilizing the 2-/3-Stage selectable Ground Based Interceptor capability in 2-stage mode provides the Warfighter with increased battlespace that supports additional shot opportunities to negate an incoming threat missile," newly confirmed MDA Director Lt. Gen. Heath Collins, said in the statement. ..."
Reference: www.foxnews.com .
"...Defense is a major industry in Alabama. 168,439 Alabamians work for defense contractors.
Boeing builds Patriot missile components in Huntsville, the Lancer missile is made in a plant near Troy, parts for the Hydra-70 rocket are made at plants in Anniston and Huntsville. Parts for the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle are made in Anniston.
Alabamians build missiles, rockets, planes, helicopters, drones and more to supply the U.S. military and allies. All told, Alabama is on the front lines of security here at home and across the globe. ..."
"...Israel's Arrow missile defense system intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile launched from Yemen on Wednesday. According to the Israeli Army's spokesperson, the missile was launched from the Red Sea area, and was shot down before entering Israeli airspace. ..."
Reference: www.haaretz.com .
"In August, the U.S. The Army reported the first successful test-firing of its new land-based Mid-Range Capability (MRC) prototype at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington by soldiers from the 1st Domain Task Force and Navy sailors. ..."
Reference: thedailydigest.com .
"US VOWS RESPONSE TO ‘IRAN-ENABLED’ ATTACKS ON SHIPPING: The U.S. Central Command, in a statement confirming four attacks against three cargo ships operating in international waters in the southern Red Sea, said while the anti-ship ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, Iran is ultimately responsible. “These attacks represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security. ..."
Reference: www.washingtonexaminer.com .
"RTX Corporation recently secured a contract involving the Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept of Target (“PATRIOT”). Per the deal, the company will be accountable for providing depot operations, technical assistance and new equipment training for PATRIOT. The Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL, has awarded the deal. Valued at $145 million, the contract is scheduled to be completed by Nov 30, 2025. The work related to the deal will be carried out in Doha, Qatar. ..."
Reference: www.zacks.com .
"Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We privately fund our R&D and sell finished products off the shelf, meaning we emphasize speed and results. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in real operational scenarios, we want you at Anduril. ..."
Reference: www.anduril.com .
"The company says the U.S. government has operationally tested the weapon. ...Anduril Industries has been secretly building what executives say is a first-of-a-kind, turbojet-powered craft that can down incoming drones or missiles, perform reconnaissance, and handle other missions. Called Road Runner, the six-foot, delta-winged craft can take off and land vertically and fly autonomously. So is it a missile or a drone?..."
Reference: www.defenseone.com .
"...At the end of October 2023, we learned of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer taking on multiple targets at the same time. It was not something that happened in of the many of our planet's hot spots, but during a test event called Vigilant Wyvern which took place in the Pacific Ocean. ..."
Reference: www.autoevolution.com .
"...Boeing (NYSE:BA) on Monday said it started building a bigger factory in Huntsville, Alabama, to make sensors for Patriot missiles amid rising demand worldwide.
The expanded facility is expected to start operations in early 2027, increasing Boeing’s (BA) yearly production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 ((PAC-3)) by more than 30%, according to an announcement. ..."
"...After a series of attacks from Iran-backed militants, Israel has deployed several ships capable of launching missiles to the Red Sea, where they will join US Navy vessels already there.
"In accordance with the situational assessment and as part of defensive efforts in the area, yesterday, Israeli Navy missile boats arrived in the area of the Red Sea," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Wednesday. ...The Israeli force posture change comes after Yemen's Houthi militants, a group that like Hamas is backed by Iran, cla
imed responsibility for firing long-range missiles and drones at Israel on Tuesday. "
"...units are meant to accompany and operate a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and Patriot battalions ordered to be spread across the region. ...Twenty-one American troops have suffered injuries from these attacks, many of them traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). ..."
Reference: thehill.com .
"...Emergency Resupply for Iron Dome Act of 2023.
The bill mandates redirecting U.S. foreign assistance from Hamas-controlled Gaza to resupply Israel's missile defense.
"My legislation requires the Biden administration to halt U.S. foreign assistance from going to Hamas terrorist-dominated areas and instead to redirect these resources to help Israel resupply its lifesaving Iron Dome interceptors," Hagerty said in a press release on Thursday. ...Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a co-sponsor of the bill, said, "Now more than ever, the U.S. must stand in support of our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
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"...action was a demonstration of the integrated air and missile defense architecture that we have built in the Middle East and that we are prepared to utilize whenever necessary to protect our partners and our interests...cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting, but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea..."
Reference: nypost.com .
Article Title: Biden admin set to allow Iran UN sanctions on ballistic missile program to expire: 'Huge victory for Tehran'
Snippet of Article: "...The Hamas war against Israel is slated to be given a potent shot in the arm if the U.S. and its European allies allow U.N. sanctions to be lifted on Iran’s capability to purchase and supply missiles to enemies of the U.S. and Israel, according to experts on Tehran.
This coming Wednesday is the so-called "Transition Day" when the expiration of the U.N.’s embargo against Iran’s ability to procure and sell missiles and drones goes into effect. ..."
Article Excerpt: "Meshaal's call for a Friday 13th uprising was reiterated by Hamas itself...'We declare next Friday, ''The Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood,'' as a day of general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free people of the world,' Meshaal's statement said, which was sent to Reuters news agency. ..."
Reference Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
"Netanyahu tells Israel ‘We are at war’ after Hamas launches an unprecedented attack, killing at least 22 people ...Hamas fighters parading what appeared to be stolen Israeli military vehicles through the streets and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza being dragged and trampled by an angry crowd of Palestinians ...“We are at war,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address, declaring a mass mobilization of the country’s army reserves. “Not an ‘operation,’ not a ‘round,’ but at war.” “The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he added, promising that Israel would “return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known.” ..."
Reference: nypost.com .
"...On Saturday morning, as sirens blared alerting residents to the landing of Hamas' rockets on Israeli soil, what stopped most rockets from wreaking havoc was Israel's Iron Dome. ..."
Reference: www.timesnownews.com .
"...The Israeli military said that at least 2,200 rockets had been fired from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a call-up of reservists and said, “We are at war.” At least 41 people have been killed...."
Reference: www.nytimes.com .
"...A final successful test has been held of Burevestnik missile - a global-range nuclear-powered cruise missile. ...The missile, code-named Skyfall by Nato, is said to be powered by a nuclear reactor, which is supposed to activate after solid fuel rocket boosters have launched it into the air. But the New York Times quoted an arms control campaign group, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, as saying that the previous known 13 tests of the system between 2017 and 2019 were all unsuccessful."
Reference: www.bbc.com .
"...During the next 36 months, Northrop Grumman will further develop the weapon, conduct platform integration and complete the flight test programme for rapid prototyping in preparation for rapid fielding. Work will be performed at the company’s Northridge, California facility and its factory of the future for missile integration at Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia. ..."
Reference: www.aero-mag.com .
"...ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama’s commanding officer Cmdr. Michael Lyle has been fired, Navy officials said on Monday. Rear Adm. Nicholas Tilbrook, commander of Submarine Group 9, relieved Lyle of command on Sept. 22 “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” a Navy news release says. ...As a ballistic missile submarine, USS Alabama can carry up to 20 nuclear-armed missiles, which it can launch in a matter of minutes. Missile submarines make up one leg of the United States’ nuclear triad, which also includes land-based nuclear missiles..."
Reference: taskandpurpose.com .
"...A series of simulations was held to enhance operational competence with all layers of Israel's missile systems. ..."
Reference: www.israelnationalnews.com .
"...Estonia and Latvia signed an agreement Monday with Germany to purchase a medium-range air defense missile system...IRIS-T defense systems produced by German company Diehl Defense. Estonia and Latvia previously have signed letters of intent to joint the Sky Shield Initiative..."
Reference: apnews.com .
"The State Dept. notified Congress, which will decide whether to approve the deal, according to a Sept. 11 Defense Security Cooperation Agency announcement.
The Northrop Grumman-developed IBCS system was cleared by the U.S. Army for full-rate production in the spring of 2023, but Poland will be the first to declare IBCS operational. ..."The State Dept. notified Congress, which will decide whether to approve the deal, according to a Sept. 11 Defense Security Cooperation Agency announcement.
The Northrop Grumman-developed IBCS system was cleared by the U.S. Army for full-rate production in the spring of 2023, but Poland will be the first to declare IBCS operational.
"...Russia has managed to overcome sanctions and export controls imposed by the West to expand its missile production beyond prewar levels, according to...Russia subverted American export controls using its intelligence services and ministry of defense to run illicit networks of people who smuggle key components by exporting them to other countries from which they can be shipped to Russia more easily."
Reference: www.nytimes.com .
Article Title: In Memorial to the Saudi Attack on America Sept. 11, 2001
"Joe Biden is nearing a decision on sending long-range missiles to Kyiv, potentially opening another chapter in US military support for Ukraine..."
Reference: www.ft.com .
"...Does Saudi Arabia have a missile defense system? Yes. Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 Hit-to-Kill interceptors provide high precision and unmatched air missile defense for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ..."
Reference: www.lockheedmartin.com .
"The Arrow 3 Missile defense system is designed to intercept exo-atmospheric ballistic missiles, making it the long-range missile defense tier of Israel's multi-tier missile defense against Iran, Hezbollah, and others. The deal is expected to eventually be worth $3.5-4 billion and will include a wide variety of technological infrastructure which Israeli officials said would cover defending all of Germany from missile strikes and not just specific pieces. ..."
Reference: www.jpost.com .
"As an Interdisciplinary General Engineer/Operations Research Analyst at the NH-0801/1515-4 level, some of your typical work assignments may include..."
Reference: www.usajobs.gov/job/744787600 .
"Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded $7 million to advance development and assessment of the company's GhostEye® MR radar, an advanced medium-range sensor for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS. ...GhostEye MR leverages commonality with the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) that Raytheon is building for the U.S. Army."
Reference: www.prnewswire.com .
"...Russia’s first lunar mission in nearly half a century came to a violent end when its unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after encountering a problem when it began preparing for pre-landing orbit. Russian officials had hoped the prestige mission would show they can still compete in space despite their post-Soviet decline..."
Reference: nypost.com .
"Ingalls has delivered 35 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the U.S. Navy including the first Flight III, Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), in June of this year. In addition, Ingalls Shipbuilding has four Flight IIIs currently under construction and was awarded an additional six destroyers earlier this month. Ted Stevens will be christened Saturday, Aug. 19, while Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), George M. Neal (DDG 131) and Sam Nunn (DDG 133) are also under construction at Ingalls. Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers built for the U.S. Navy incorporate a number of design modifications that collectively provide significantly enhanced capability. DDG 125 includes the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) and the Aegis Baseline 10 Combat System that is required to keep pace with the threats well into the 21st century. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are highly capable, multi-mission ships and can conduct a variety of operations..."
Reference: www.marinelink.com .
"Premiers of Japan and the U.S. are to meet on Friday to discuss a possible collaboration to develop and build a hypersonic missile interceptor. ..."
Reference: interestingengineering.com .
"Sites all over the island and permanent airspace closures will be part of turning Guam into a fortress unlike any other. ...set to gain as many as 20 new air defense sites packed with surface-to-air interceptors, radars, and more as part of a massive defensive upgrade plan. Overall, the island looks set to become the most densely protected place anywhere on the planet."
Reference: www.thedrive.com .
"...The test will involve the Navy’s Aegis weapon system deployed to Guam and the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor, Rear Adm. Doug Williams said. He is serving as the acting director while the nominated director, Maj. Gen. Heath Collins, awaits Senate confirmation. Williams is the agency’s director of testing. The first wave of defenses designed to counter complex missile threats against Guam will include..."
Reference: www.defensenews.com .
"...“It now appears you have something to hide, otherwise a forthright response to the Committee’s patient and numerous requests would have already come,” Rogers said in what he said was his fifth attempt to retrieve the documentation. “If you fail to adequately respond, I will be forced to seek a subpoena for the relevant documents we have requested on multiple occasions, and to seek your compelled appearance.” He called on Kendall and Dickinson to provide the remaining documents and schedule interviews with House Armed Services Committee staff no later than Aug. 9. The letter comes on the heels of the White House’s July 31 announcement that it would permanently base Space Command at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. The move reverses a 2021 Air Force decision to locate the headquarters in Huntsville, Ala., which is home to the Army’s Redstone Arsenal. ..."
Reference: www.c4isrnet.com .
"...SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Space Operations Command officially transferred ownership of Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program Space Vehicle 2 to Space Systems Command last month after declaring mission complete. Having surpassed the end of its design life, ownership of SV2 was transferred to SSC to make way for new more advanced technology in the space domain. ..."
Reference: www.spoc.spaceforce.mil .
""A modernized and well-equipped army is a guarantee of our security which is why we are constantly strengthening [the] Polish Army using the possibilities of the Polish arms industry," said Poland's minister of defense, Mariusz Blaszczak. ...Poland has formally issued a contract to buy two 340 Airborne Early Warning aircraft from Swedish manufacturer Saab, the company said today, in a deal worth approximately SEK 600 million ($58 million USD)... ."
Reference: breakingdefense.com .
"President Joe Biden has moved to keep United States Space Command in Colorado, according to reports from the Associated Press. The move overturns a decision made by the Air Force that selected Huntsville as the preferred home for the military command. ...the House Armed Services Committee, said Huntsville remains the best place for Space Command. “It is clear to anyone who has looked at the facts: Huntsville, Alabama is the best place for U.S. Space Command Headquarters. Repeated investigations and objective reviews have proven that to be the case. It is shameful that the Biden Administration is ignoring what is best for our nation’s security and is instead using their woke agenda to make this decision. To this point, the administration has refused to answer questions brought forth by the House Armed Services Committee’s investigation of their actions in this process. If they think this will go away… they are wrong. I will ensure they have to explain their actions and answer our questions on the record. I want to thank Chairman Mike Rogers and the entire Alabama delegation, as we stand united to get answers for Alabamians.” ..."
Reference: whnt.com .
" "The [Biden] Administration strongly opposes section 1662, which would expand U.S. homeland missile defense policy in a way that would signal intent to develop U.S. homeland missile defenses to counter large intercontinental-range, nuclear missiles threats such as those fielded by the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Russia," the White House said. Asked by VOA how expanding U.S. homeland missile defense policy would undermine strategic deterrence, the White House did not respond before publication of this report. ...The [Biden] administration also strongly opposes a section of the proposed NDAA that calls for the Pentagon and the Missile Defense Agency to execute a program to achieve initial operational capability of a Glide Phase Interceptor, a weapon that could defeat any known hypersonic missile, by December 31, 2029. ..."
Reference: www.voanews.com .
"A simple typo reportedly directed millions of emails with sensitive information to the African country...As a result, everything from diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and travel details of top officers has been exposed...“This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US,” he wrote to the outlet."
Reference: www.militarytimes.com .
"Nancy Jones-Bonbrest of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said that after completion, the Aegis Ashore Poland base would undergo final testing by the US Navy, after which it would become the US's second anti-missile land base in Europe, marking the end of the final phase of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPPA). The EPPA is part of a NATO anti-missile system designed to protect the continent against short, medium, and intermediate-range missiles from Iran. ..."
Reference: Telewizja Polska S.A. .
"Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz early Wednesday, firing shots at one of them, the U.S. Navy said.
It said that in both cases, the Iranian naval vessels backed off after the U.S. Navy responded to distress signals, and that both commercial ships continued their voyages.
"The Iranian navy did make attempts to seize commercial tankers lawfully transiting international waters," said Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. "The U.S. Navy responded immediately and prevented those seizures."..."
"Retired engineers are being called up to help make Stinger missiles. ...Raytheon is reportedly calling engineers out of retirement to manufacture the missile for Ukraine's forces. ...weapons must be made the same way they were four decades ago. "We were bringing back retired employees that are in their 70s," he told the outlet, stating that they were using decades-old blueprints. ..."
Reference: www.newsweek.com .
"According to news reports, Biden is prepared to authorize billions of dollars in payments to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. prisoners, a halt to militia attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, a moratorium on ballistic-missile sales to Russia, and a freeze on uranium enrichment at 60 percent (90 percent enriched uranium is considered weapons-grade). Biden will say this perverse arrangement is necessary to free innocents and prevent the outbreak of war. What he won’t be able to do is call it a deal. ..."
Reference: www.msn.com .
"...Associated work on the THAAD 5.0 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile segment will be done at Lockheed MFC’s Grand Prairie, Texas, location through Dec. 31, 2025, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The defense contractor received the contract following an online solicitation, under which it was the sole bidder. Army Contracting Command used fiscal 2023 missile procurement to obligate the full amount of the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract at the time of the award. ..."
Reference: www.govconwire.com .
"...The draft National Space Authorization Act would also push Space Force on integrating commercial data and on over-classification of space programs. ...The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee in its fiscal 2024 draft defense policy bill would speed delivery of a new Missile Defense Agency interceptor specifically designed to shoot down hypersonic missiles. ..."
Reference: breakingdefense.com .
The following is a troubling article that again examples the anti-christian, biased Biden administration that's willing to scrap U.S. defense and harm the largest city in Alabama that has already invested in housing, apartments and infrastructure for the already approved action to to move the U.S. Space Command HQ to Huntsville, Alabama.
"...military analysts say. Congressional and defense officials told NBC News that the White House was considering reneging on a Trump administration promise to move Space Command's headquarters to Alabama due to the state's recent abortion laws. ..."
Reference: rocketcityus.blogspot.com .
"...The launch initially prompted the activation of a missile warning system for the southern region. "Missile launch. Missile launch. North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Please take shelters inside buildings or underground," said the alert tweeted by the prime minister's office and carried on national broadcaster NHK...."
Reference: www.barrons.com .
"...The United States has charged a Chinese national for allegedly trying to provide Iran with a material used in the production of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Xiangjiang Qiao, 39, also known as Joe Hansen, is an employee of the Chinese-based Sinotech Dalian Carbon and Graphite Manufacturing Corporation, which is part of a network of organizations involved in the attempted procurement of materials for Iran's missile program, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. The U.S. placed sanctions on the company in 2014. ...Qiao allegedly participated in a scheme from March 2019 through September 2022 to use his work to supply isostatic graphite to Iran for the production of weapons of mass destruction. ..."
Reference: www.washingtonexaminer.com .
Due to fierce Democrat opposition, our nation never fully built out our missile defense capability and doubled down on nuclear deterrence. We have relied upon our adversaries’ fear that our nuclear weapons could destroy them to deter their use of nuclear weapons against us or our allies. The result has been that our cities and populace remain unprotected from a nuclear attack from Russia or China. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and Iran continue to invest in technologies to expand their capabilities to hit the United States with nuclear weapons. All four countries have also escalated their threatening rhetoric, indicating their willingness to use nuclear weapons in a military conflict.
Reference: www.foxnews.com .
"...Kinzhal is one of six "next generation" weapons that Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled in 2018, claiming that no air defense system in the world can shoot it down. ..."
Reference: interestingengineering.com .
"...Equipment and personnel arrived Sunday at Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost inhabited island, a day after the country’s defense minister ordered the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3, missile-defense system to be deployed there. The move follows North Korea’s announcement Wednesday of its final preparations to launch a “military surveillance satellite..."
Reference: www.stripes.com .
"...Israel’s Defense Ministry also noted that both deals would also need U.S. approval, because the systems have been jointly developed with the United States. In Thursday’s announcement, the ministry said it launched “advanced negotiations” this week with its German counterparts over the purchase of the “Arrow 3,” a system designed to intercept long-range missiles outside the atmosphere. ..."
Reference: abcnews.go.com .
"The TOR-M2, which debuted in 2007, is one of the short-to medium-range missile systems used by Russian forces to take down air targets and precision-guided munitions. The surface-to-air system comes in several variations, with the TOR-M2 being an upgrade of the TOR-M1. The TOR-M2 all-weather system has a range of just under 10 miles, according to Russian state media, and is designed to fight a host of weapons systems including aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, anti-radar missiles, and "smart" bombs. ..."
Reference: www.newsweek.com .
"...Work on the $1.2 billion contract for Patriot missile launchers will be performed by Raytheon at several locations in the U.S., including Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, in addition to Germany and Switzerland. The Pentagon estimated that work on the contract will be completed by the end of 2032. ..."
Reference: www.msn.com .
"Hertling, who served as commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe... gave his perspective on where the defense systems could be put to best use by Ukraine. "It's a point defense system," Hertling said. "It's got to be placed in a location that is defending a target like a capital city, Kyiv, or a port city like Odessa. This is not a weapon system that can be moved around on the battlefield based on changing threats. It has to be placed somewhere to defend it." ..."
Reference: www.newsweek.com .
"the 65 Ukrainian soldiers who have been training at the installation since January on how to use the defensive missile system to track and shoot down enemy aircraft. ...The Patriot missile system, which hasn’t yet been deployed in Ukraine, is particularly useful for defending population centers and critical infrastructure...expected to leave Oklahoma in the next several days for additional training in Germany before they deploy to Ukraine with a Patriot missile battery that typically includes six mobile launchers, a mobile radar, a power generator and an engagement control center."
Reference: www.defensenews.com .
"MDA’s budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 is $10.9 billion. The FY 2024 budget will continue the development, rigorous testing and fielding of reliable, increasingly capable, advanced missile defenses. The Agency’s priorities for missile defense are..."
Reference: www.mda.mil .
"...The Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) is a United States Department of Defense security, medical and psychological evaluation program, designed to permit only the most trustworthy individuals to have access to nuclear weapons (NPRP), chemical weapons (CPRP), and biological weapons (BPRP). The program was first instituted for nuclear weapons during the Cold War; it was later extended to the realm of chemical and biological workers. Among its goals are, (Quoting from DOD Directive 5210.42) ...Only those personnel who have demonstrated the highest degree of individual reliability for allegiance, trustworthiness, conduct, behavior, and responsibility shall be allowed to perform duties associated with nuclear weapons, and they shall be continuously evaluated for adherence to PRP standards. ..."
Reference: wikipedia.org
Article Title: Russia flying more armed aircraft over US bases
Snippet of Article: "Kurilla talked about the ongoing harassment of the U.S. forces in the region during a meeting of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. ...Russian aircrafts have become emboldened lately to act more aggressive towards U.S. bases. He said that the actions of the Russian Air Force...They fly over our bases with ground attack aircraft with weapons on them..."
"Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a $31,389,031 modification (P00011) to contract W31P4Q-20-D-0019 for Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Plug & Fight A-Kit. "
Reference: www.defense.gov .
"The Department of Defense's fiscal 2024 budget request includes $9.1 billion “in support of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative,” which includes Guam, according to a release from DOD. “The effort includes resilient and distributed air basing, new missile warning and tracking architecture... The DOD also said its budget request includes an additional $1.5 billion for the “defense of Guam against the missile threat from China.” The Missile Defense Agency held a media conference on March 14 to provide more details of its own sought-after spending plan, in which Guam is noticeably included as well. “Current forces are capable of defending Guam against today's North Korean ballistic missile threats."
Reference: www.mvariety.com .
"Even when a claim against a federal contractor is dismissed, it never dies. Like a zombie, it can rise forth and bite you. That’s what a decade-plus dispute between..."
Reference: federalnewsnetwork.com .
"An emphasis in this budget of note is munitions, he said. "Ukraine has certainly informed us of the lack of flexibility in our industrial base...FY24 budget for munitions is $30.6 billion, an increase of $5.8 billion above the FY23 request...$17.3 billion for tactical missiles, $7.3 billion for strategic missiles...includes a 5.2% pay raise, informed by the rate of the private sector wage increases last year"
Reference: www.defense.gov .
"This course provides key insights from CSIS experts and practitioners on what the Biden Administration’s FY 2024 budget and strategy documents reveal about strategic priorities, major budget movements, force structure adds and cuts, and acquisition program changes. Eligibility | Registration ..."
Reference: www.csis.org .
"...the Biden administration released its Fiscal Year 2023 defense budget request. The administration’s second budget requests $24.7 billion for a category it calls “missile defeat and defense,” an increase from the $21.9 billion enacted in 2022. This grouping of programs includes traditional missile defense programs funded in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and military services but also programs usually associated with strategic missile warning and certain programs to counter missile threats prior to launch, including hypersonic strike and cyberattack. A complete list of line items in the official DoD missile defeat and defense category is difficult to reproduce. As a result..."
Reference: www.csis.org .
"The Missile Defense Agency’s $10.9 billion fiscal 2024 budget prioritizes regional and homeland missile defense with a major focus on building an air and missile defense architecture in Guam...."
Reference: www.defensenews.com .
"...A North Korean state media report yesterday came a day after South Korea’s military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles might have been launched simultaneously. ...South Korea’s Ministry of Unification later yesterday urged North Korea to stop raising tensions with “reckless nuclear and missile programs and military provocations.” "
Reference: Taipei Times .
" Australia has requested to buy up to 255 Javelin FGM-148F missiles. The prime US contractor will be the Javelin Joint Venture between defense contractors Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Technologies Corp, the Pentagon said in a statement. Australia has been boosting its defense spending over the past few years as China looks to step up its presence in the Indo-Pacific region...."
Reference: www.gmanetwork.com .
"...the missiles used this time, and Ukraine’s mixed success in shooting them down, has led to renewed pleas for better air defenses. If Russia can field numbers of its new hypersonic missiles, the game may be about to change. According to a statement from General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, the attacks aimed at critical infrastructure..."
Reference: www.forbes.com .
"The latest attack targeted Ukraine’s infrastructure and caused damage as far as Lviv in the west of the country. ...Russia had launched 81 missiles of different varieties from air, land and sea, in addition to eight Iranian-made attack drones. Four of the drones and 34 cruise missiles were intercepted, Gen. Zaluzhny said...."
Reference: www.wsj.com .
"“The problem is that both of the Russian as well as the Ukrainian success in integrated air and missile defense made much of those aircraft worthless because they can’t go over and do close air support,” he said when asked about what might be required to reconstitute Ukraine’s diminished air power. Ukrainian air defenses are composed of a hodgepodge of Soviet-era weapons and more modern Western systems supplied by countries like the US, Germany and the United Kingdom, with each requiring their own specialized training. Ukrainians decide where to position assets, Hecker said, and have been able to effectively defend their airspace despite challenges inherent in fielding several different types of weapon systems. ..."
Reference: breakingdefense.com .
"Raytheon Technologies has won a contract worth more than $250 million from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency to design and develop a satellite system to detect and track hypersonic missiles and other threats. ..."
Reference: www.bizjournals.com .
"...The Air Force is launching a sweeping cancer study after several officers assigned to a missile unit in Montana were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer that forms in the body’s lymph system. ..."
Reference: www.washingtontimes.com .
"...The Republic of Korea Navy's Aegis destroyer ROKS Sejong the Great held a drill with Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry and a Japanese Atago-class Aegis destroyer. The trilateral exercise took place shortly after North Korea launched a Hwasong-15 ICBM last Saturday that is believed to be theoretically capable of hitting targets anywhere on the U.S. mainland. It also fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the East Sea...The trilateral missile defense exercise took place for the first time since Oct. 6, 2022, when ROKS Sejong the Great conducted a three-way naval exercise alongside Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold, part of the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group, and Japan's destroyers JS Chokai and JS Ashigara in response to North Korea's provocations."
Reference: www.koreatimes.co.kr .
" Hong Kong CNN — China has imposed sanctions on two American defense manufacturers over arms sales to Taiwan, a day after Beijing pledged to take “countermeasures” in response to Washington’s handling of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that entered US airspace late last month. Lockheed (LMT) Martin Corporation and Raytheon (RTN) Missiles & Defense, a subsidiary of Raytheon (RTN) Technologies Corp, will be added to China’s sanctions list, its Ministry of Commerce said in a Thursday statement. They are banned from importing, exporting and investing in China. "
Reference: www.cnn.com .
"Japan has been considering purchasing up to about 500 Tomahawks, according to a government source. The move came as the government aims to enhance its deterrence through the acquisition of "counterstrike capabilities" as pledged in three key security documents revised in December amid China's military buildup and the North Korean missile and nuclear threats...."
Reference: kyodonews.net .
"...A joint venture between Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and nou Systems has won a potential $637.1 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency develop a layered system for defending against missile attacks. Huntsville, Alabama-based nTSI will engineer hypersonic defense, cybersecurity, space and threat systems as part of the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. ..."
Reference: www.govconwire.com .
"This now makes three objects that flew over the U.S. in the last week before they were shot down. Ryder said Saturday’s shootdown — which involved an F-22 from the United States ...was “unidentified” but NORAD spokesman, Maj. Olivier Gallant, said the military had determined what it was but would not reveal details."
Reference: www.cbs17.com .
'Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he ordered the takedown of an “unidentified” object that had crossed into Canada’s airspace on Saturday.'
"The Minuteman III missile lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:01 p.m. Thursday and its reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) over the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, an Air Force statement said. ..."
Reference: abcnews.go.com .
"... The U.S. intelligence community has linked the Chinese spy balloon shot down on Saturday to a vast surveillance program run by the People's Liberation Army, and U.S. officials have begun to brief allies and partners who have been similarly targeted. The surveillance balloon effort, which has operated for several years partly out of Hainan province off China's south coast, has collected information on military assets in countries..."
Reference: www.stripes.com .
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The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message
from the President of the United States which was which was ordered to
lie on the table:
To the Congress of the United States:
Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Our First Lady and Second
Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Leaders of our
military. Mr. Chief Justice, Associate Justices, and retired Justices
of the Supreme Court. And you, my fellow Americans.
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"U.S. territory includes U.S. airspace up until space is reached, but the balloon is well within U.S. airspace – Pentagon officials say it is at about 60,000 feet. ...it is no coincidence that the balloon is hovering near U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile fields ..."
Reference: www.foxnews.com .
"...The USS America “detected, tracked and engaged a target” with an RIM-116 rolling airframe missile this week in the Philippine Sea, an exercise the Navy says was aimed at keeping the amphibious assault ship’s crew ready for warfighting. The RIM-116 is a low-cost, lightweight, quick-reaction, “fire-and-forget” weapon designed to destroy anti-ship cruise missiles and other air and surface threats, according to the Navy’s website. "The missile was launched at an incoming drone meant to simulate an anti-ship cruise missile to test the ship's surface-to-air defense systems ..."
Reference: www.stripes.com .
"...war between Ukraine and Russia does not seem to be ending in the near future. ...A Guardian report stated that a Pantsir missile system had been installed on the roof of an eight-story building used by the Russian defence ministry along the Moskva River. "Another video showed the air defence system being lifted onto the roof of an education building in Moscow's Taganka district, 1.5 miles south-east of the Kremlin," reported the news outlet."
Reference: www.ndtv.com .
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"...this Tech Cold War is defined by the computer chip. "Strategists in Beijing and Washington now realize that all advanced tech — from machine learning to missile systems, from automated vehicles to armed drones — requires cutting-edge chips," Chris Miller, an associate professor of international history at Tufts University, wrote in his recent book, "Chip War ." The Tech Cold War between the US and China, along with the recent surge in pandemic-induced chip shortages, has triggered a massive push by the federal government to bring semiconductor manufacturing to the US. ..."
Reference: www.businessinsider.com .
"..."The American people deserve to know whether the Chinese Communist Party, through Chinese companies, influenced potential Biden administration policies with large, anonymous donations to UPenn and the Penn Biden Center," Comer wrote in his letter...The letter also claims that Hunter Biden, "the president's son, may have had access to the classified documents found at the president's Delaware home since he listed it as his home address as recently as 2018 and planned to share office space with an individual affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party." ...
Reference: www.newsmax.com .
"...ESCONDIDO, Calif., Jan. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One Stop Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSS), a leader in AI Transportable compute and storage solutions at the edge, has received a $3 million dollar order from a prime military contractor to upgrade a radar simulation system operated by the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency. The order includes deliveries of OSS 4UV compute accelerators systems, each powered by eight of the most powerful PCIe Gen4 Tensor Core GPUs available on the market today and using proprietary OSS Gen 4 PCI express-over-cable technology. The systems will be deployed in edge mobile radar systems and..."
Reference: www.yahoo.com .
"Ret. Col. Douglas Macgregor in an interview Friday with FOX News host Tucker Carlson warned there is a "war with the drug cartels" at the U.S.-Mexico border and fighting will eventually spill on the American side. Macgregor said Mexican President Obrador is irrelevant and a mouthpiece for the cartels, adding Mexico is "the only truly existential threat" to America. ...We are going to have to fight inside the United States as well as on our border. And that's going to demand the United States army because our border patrol is not nearly as well-equipped. They are outgunned, outperformed in every sense, every category of military power by the cartels."..."
Reference: www.realclearpolitics.com .
