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Raytheon Awarded $925 Million for Advanced Standard Missile-3
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon Company a $925 million contract for development of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile, which is a co-development effort between the U.S. and Japan. “As the threat continues to evolve, so does our ability to counter that threat,” said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems. “We’re [...]
Israel to Upgrade Iron Dome Missile, Radar
The Iron Dome anti-missile defense system will soon start using a new and improved interceptor missile. The upgraded model of the Tamir interceptor missile will soon become operational in the IAF, to be used against missiles and rockets. Iron Dome batteries across the country will use the new interceptor missiles as well as the currently [...]
US plans $4.2 bn Patriot missile sale to Kuwait
The Pentagon said Wednesday it planned to sell 60 Patriot missiles to Kuwait in a deal worth an estimated $4.2 billion, as the emirate tries to bolster its defenses against the threat from Iran. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which is in charge of US weapon sales to foreign countries, notified the US Congress [...]
Singapore Navy Conducts Successful Missile Firing
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) conducted a live-firing of the Barak anti-missile missile in the South China Sea earlier today as part of the 18th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise which Singapore is conducting with the United States. The missile was fired by the upgraded RSN missile corvette RSS Victory against [...]
Finland Requests Army Tactical Missile Systems M57 T2K Unitary
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress July 5 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Finland for 70 M57 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) T2K Unitary Missiles and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $132 million. This transmittal supersedes Transmittal No. 12-25 and replaces the [...]
Boeing Receives US Navy Contracts for SLAM ER and Harpoon Missiles
Boeing on June 29 received a firm-fixed-price contract from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command for the production of nearly 90 Harpoon Block II missiles and associated hardware for the U.S. and four foreign militaries. The $145.1 million contract also includes exercise and test variants of the Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER). The [...]
Russia’s ground forces to get Iskander-M systems
The Iskander-M tactical missile system that surpasses similar foreign weapons should become the basis of Russia’s ground forces, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a conference dedicated to the modernization of the defence industry facilities in the city of Kolomna near Moscow. The Iskander system was displayed for the first time at the MAKS [...]
Small Diameter Bomb II Finds, Hits Moving Target
Raytheon Company’s GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) program achieved a major milestone when it successfully engaged and hit a moving target during a flight test at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Currently in engineering and manufacturing development, SDB II is designed to engage moving targets in adverse weather and through battlefield obscurants. [...]
Turkey sends missile batteries to Syria border
Turkey sent batteries of ground-to-air missiles to the border with Syria on Sunday, media reports said, boosting its firepower as rebels in Syria seized several border posts. As fighting raged in Damascus and Aleppo, rebels were said to have taken control of three crossing points on the border with Turkey, which is sheltering thousands of [...]
