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NATO chief determined to move ahead with missile shield
The NATO chief expressed the Western alliance’s determination to push ahead with building a missile defense system, following what he called the first successful comprehensive test of the concept. “After the Chicago summit, we will continue to expand the system toward full operational capability,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen wrote in an op-ed piece [...]
Exocet MM40 Successfully Test-Fired With Its New Brazilian Motor
The Brazilian Navy has successfully carried out a firing trial of an Exocet MM40 missile, equipped with a motor developed, produced and certified by Avibras in partnership with MBDA. This is the first time that the Brazilian Navy has carried out such a test which represents the country’s autonomy in obtaining anti-ship missile motors which, [...]
US Tests New Missile Defense System
The United States has successfully tested a new ballistic missile defense interceptor, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said. The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system was flight tested on board the USS Lake Erie (CG 70), resulting in “the first intercept of a short-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean” by the Navy’s newest [...]
Jordan Interested in Russia’s Multiple Launch Rocket System
Russia’s arms trading company Rosoboronexport has offered Jordan the TOS-1 Buratino multiple launch rocket system, Newsru.com reported on Thursday. Rosoboronexport’s delegation, headed by Valery Varlamov, is taking part in the Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference Sofex-2012 in Amman in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. “We have noticed that many delegations at the exhibition expressed [...]
Test pilot school adds cyberspace to test and evaluation training
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School has a long, rich history of educating the best of the best in air and space. Apollo 13 astronaut, Fred Haise; X-15 pilot, Joe Engle; and the first man to break the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager; are just a few of the notable Test Pilot School alumnae who [...]
Lockheed Martin’s DAGR Engages Moving Target in Apache Demonstration
Lockheed Martin’s Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) successfully tracked and engaged a moving target in a recent demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. “DAGR hit a moving target from 3.5 kilometers,” said Hady Mourad, DAGR program director in Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control business. “Defeating high-value targets on the move is a critical capability, [...]
Russia to Adopt New Liquid Heavy ICBM after 2022
Russia will only be able to adopt a new 100-ton liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) intended to penetrate the US missile defense system by 2022, the manufacturer said on Tuesday. Russian military mentioned the possibility of the new ICBMs in 2009 but the official decision to launch development of the new silo-based missile designed to [...]
Russia warns it may target US missile shield
Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defence was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this point and the situation is practically at a [...]
Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike
Russia does not exclude preemptive use of weapons against [NATO] missile defense systems in Europe but only as a last resort, the Russian General Staff said on Thursday at a missile defense conference in Moscow. “The placement of new strike weapons in the south and northwest of Russia against [NATO] missile defense components, including the [...]
