"...Former President Donald Trump pledged Saturday to protect the United States with a much-larger version of Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile-defense system if he wins a second term in the White House.
“In my next term, we will build a great Iron Dome over our country — a dome like has never been seen before..."
"...From Ukraine to the Middle East, the Patriot air defense system is having a moment: a reliable American weapon downing enemy threats. But that’s also driving demand for missiles that the US defense industry is struggling to meet.
The Patriot sits at the center of Ukraine’s demand for more..."
"...Let us be clear: China, not Russia, poses the greatest threat to American security. This should not be controversial […] If China successfully invades Taiwan, Beijing will be primed to dismantle America’s alliance network in East Asia and eventually dominate the region. And time is short to deter China.” Read the full letter here ..."
"...Zelensky in Washington thanked Ukraine's backers for the promise of new air defenses -- and urged the United States and others to go further to help defeat Russia. ... Putin has repeatedly accused the West of antagonizing Russia by entertaining NATO membership for Ukraine, whose separate identity he has rejected. Ukraine has also been clamoring for greater air defenses to protect cities being barraged by Russia. Biden promised Monday an additional Patriot system, on top of two new ..."
Reference: www.spacewar.com .
"Ukraine, a partner that relies on military aid from the NATO members, is opening a small office in Washington to strengthen its ties to the U.S. defense industry. ...NATO summit in Washington, where leaders were focused on the need both to support Ukraine...Biden on Tuesday announced another major air defense package for Ukraine, and outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance had signed the Stinger contract. ...rapid push over the past two years exposed that defense firms both in the U.S. and in Europe were not set to produce at the levels needed in a major conventional war. "
Reference: apnews.com .
"...The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission is to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight. ..."
Reference: www.mda.mil .
"...As of April 2018, the Pentagon deploys 44 ground-based interceptors (GBIs)–40 at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. ...As of April 2018, the Pentagon deploys 44 ground-based interceptors (GBIs)–40 at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Twenty of the 40 interceptors deployed in Alaska are armed with an older CE-1 kill vehicle that has not had a successful flight intercept test since 2008. In 2017, the Trump administration announced its plan to deploy twenty more GBIs to be installed in a fourth missile field in Ft. Greely beginning in the FY 2021 timeframe. According to the Missile Defense Review, all 64 interceptors would be ready by 2023. These interceptors will be armed with the new, under-development Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV), which is intended to enhance the performance of the current EKV. But the RKV has been plagued by reliability and design problems, which led to the Pentagon stopping work on the program in May 2019 and, after a short review, terminating the program in August. The new timeline for expanding the GMD system to 64 interceptors is uncertain."
Reference: www.armscontrol.org .
"The repeated issues with Starliner threaten its future and further damage Boeing’s reputation in the aerospace industry. ...reports indicate that NASA and Boeing managers were aware of a leak in the Starliner spacecraft prior to its launch, yet proceeded with the mission. This decision has..."
Reference: www.businesstoday.in .
"...Boeing Co. is discussing a potential path forward with the US Defense Department to preserve its government contract business after the company agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge tied to two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jet, according to a person familiar with the discussions. A Pentagon spokesperson separately said on Monday that the department will assess the plea agreement and related matters to “make a determination as to what steps are necessary and appropriate to protect the federal government.” ..."
Reference: www.bloomberg.com .
"... During his speech on Tuesday, Biden vowed that “the United States will make sure that when we export critical air defense interceptors, Ukraine goes to the front of the line.”
“They will get this assistance before anyone else gets it,” Biden added. ..."
"...The LGM-35A Sentinel, the Air Force's planned next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile, is facing severe cost overruns that triggered a critical Nunn-McCurdy breach. The Pentagon has decided to proceed with the Sentinel program, while scaling back its launch control center and making other changes to bring its costs down. (Northrop Grumman)..."
Reference: www.defensenews.com .
"...BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese group Hezbollah said it launched over 200 rockets Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders. The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of the largest in the monthslong conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border, with tensions escalating in recent weeks. The Israeli military said “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon...Israel sees Hezbollah as its most direct threat and estimates that it has an arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles. "
Reference: www.newsnationnow.com .
"...A long-range missile–entering the kinetic interceptor market space and providing an agile and alternate prime within the industrial base to counter the rapidly evolving threats. ..."
Reference: www.defenseandmunitions.com .
"...A US mid-range missile system deployed in the Philippines for annual joint military exercises -- to the annoyance of China -- will be pulled out of the country, a Philippine Army spokesman said Thursday. The US Army said in April it had deployed the Mid-Range Capability missile system which can fire the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in the northern Philippines. ...The presence of the mid-range missile system on Philippine soil had angered Beijing."
Reference: www.yahoo.com .
"...Israeli officials have told Newsweek they estimate that Hezbollah has accumulated an arsenal of around 200,000 rockets, as well as mortars, drones, surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank missiles, precision-guided munitions, among other armaments. Widely considered to be larger and far more powerful than Hamas, a battle with Hezbollah could see major Israeli cities such as Tel Aviv and Haifa targeted with barrages of weaponry in a bid to overwhelm Israeli defense systems, such as the Iron Dome, in addition to Israeli troops facing constant fire on both sides of the border. ..."
Reference: www.newsweek.com .
"...U.S. Army Capt. Scott Hoffman, 100th Missile Defense Brigade Detachment 1 outgoing commander relinquished command of the GMD DET 1 to U.S. Army Capt. Jose Montalvo, 100th Missile Defense Brigade Detachment 1 incoming commander during a change of command ceremony at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., June 28, 2024. A change of command ceremony..."
Reference: www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil .
"...The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army recently completed an end-to-end flight test of a hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, HI. The test provided data on the end-to-end performance of the Conventional Prompt Strike and Long Range Hypersonic Weapon All Up Round...."
Reference: www.defense.gov .
"...The biggest single outlay will go to the Redstone Arsenal, the Army's primary testing facility for missiles in Huntsville. It would receive $80 million for a ground test facility. ..."
Reference: www.thecentersquare.com .
"... While the transfer of all eight systems was being discussed, they might not all end up being sent to Ukraine, four of the people said. Three of the people with knowledge of the discussions said Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba had held talks on the matter with his US counterpart Antony Blinken in recent weeks. ... Israel has also ample stocks of interceptor missiles — which Ukraine also needs — to go with the batteries, according to one person familiar with the size of Israel’s arsenal. Analysts also said the old Israeli interceptor missiles had a longer range and a bigger warhead than the newer PAC-3 model. ..."
Reference: www.ft.com .
"...The publication of the figures come after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public claim last week that the US has been “withholding” weapons shipments from Israel. ...Biden’s freeze of the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs as a signal that all arms shipments should be scrutinized more closely, slowing the process in comparison to the beginning of the war."
Reference: www.timesofisrael.com .
"...The announcement comes after President Joe Biden, during last week’s Group of Seven meeting in Italy, suggested such action might be necessary, saying, “We’ve let it be known for those countries that are expecting, from us, air defense systems in the future, that they’re going to have to wait.” “Everything we have is going to go to Ukraine until their needs are met,” Biden said. “And then we will make good on the commitments we made to other countries.” ..."
Reference: apnews.com .
"...Houthi rebels carried out yet another attack on a shipping vessel and this time in the Arabian Sea. The Houthi militants used a new ballistic missile to hit the ‘Israeli’ ship and boasted off accurate strike on MSC Sarah V. The United Kingdom Maritime..."
Reference: timesofindia.indiatimes.com .
"...Russia had launched 96 glide bombs, two missile strikes, 4000 shells and 44 kamikaze drones over the last 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian army. A glide bomb is a standard air-dropped bomb modified to be launched from a distance rather than directly over the target - with some weighing up to 1.5 tonnes. ...missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure"
Reference: www.independent.co.uk .
"...The Defense Department’s advanced missile tracking satellites logged their first views of a hypersonic flight test this week, according to the Missile Defense Agency. MDA didn’t disclose the date of the flight, which took off from Wallops Island in Virginia...."
Reference: www.c4isrnet.com .
"...The U.S. has supplied vast numbers of missiles to Ukraine, including more than 2,000 Stinger shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, over 10,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles, and an unspecified number of guided GMLRS rockets for HiMARS. Suppliers are struggling to rebuild stockpiles and analysts wonder how quickly the U.S. would run out of missiles in a major conflict. 3D printing offers a way to make rocket motors faster at scale, as well as developing new weapons impossible with traditional manufacturing techniques. ..."
Reference: www.forbes.com .
