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Milestone Nears for European Missile Defense Plan
The U.S. plan to defend Europe from a rapidly increasing ballistic missile threat will reach a milestone next week with the first deployment of missile defense technology, a senior Defense Department official said yesterday. “The ballistic missile threat is real, and it’s now,” said John F. Plumb, the Pentagon’s principal director for nuclear and missile [...]
Clinton confirms plans for missile base in Poland
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed Washington’s plans to deploy missile defenses and Air Force units in Poland. “As was announced by our two presidents in December, we plan to establish a new permanent U.S. air detachment in Poland, build missile defenses in Poland, and as agreed at the NATO summit, develop a [...]
Russian Army To Receive Advanced Weaponry
The Russian Ground Forces will start receiving a number of advanced weapons in 2011, including modernized S-300V4 air defense missile systems, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. “Starting in 2011, the Ground Forces will receive modernized S-300V4 and Buk-M2 medium-range air defense systems, Tor-M2 short-range air defense systems, and portable air defense systems,” the ministry [...]
Russia confirms plans to supply Syria with Yakhont missiles
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Saturday Russia has not dropped its plans to supply Syria with Yakhont missiles. “The contract [on supplies] is in progress,” Serdyukov told journalists in Vladivostok, Russia’s Far East. Russia earlier announced it would honor a 2007 contract on the delivery of several Bastion anti-ship missile systems armed with [...]
Ukraine’s role in European missile defense not yet discussed
It is too early yet to speak of Ukraine’s participation in building the European missile defense system, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Ukraine’s Channel 5. Kiev and NATO discussed Ukraine’s possible contribution to the effort on February 24. The sides discussed the possibility of launching expert consultations on the issue. “I have taken [...]
Enhancing The Protection Of Rotary Aircraft Against Missiles
Northrop Grumman and SELEX Galileo have announced the successful integration of a continuous laser autoboresight module into an advanced jam head to enhance the signal jamming capabilities of the company’s U.S. Army Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) self-protection system offering. The CIRCM jam head is lightweight, small, inexpensive and highly reliable, designed specifically for rotary-wing applications. [...]
UAE Expected to Acquire ABM System Worth $7 billion
A Lockheed Martin official said on Tuesday that he expects an agreement to be concluded this spring for the United Arab Emirates to buy an anti-ballistic missile system reputedly worth about $7 billion. “I think … sometime this spring, we’ll get some positive news that the two governments have reached an agreement” on the Terminal [...]
Arrow Weapon System Intercepts Target During Missile Defense Test
The joint U.S.-Israel Arrow Weapon System successfully intercepted a ballistic target missile during a flight test conducted today. This test is part of the Arrow System Improvement Program (ASIP) and was conducted jointly by the Israel Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division-Pt. Mugu [...]
Russia says S-300 deliveries to Venezuela delayed
Deliveries of S-300 missile defense systems to Venezuela have been delayed, but will go ahead, an official at Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-owned arms export monopoly, said on Tuesday. In November, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that Russia had agreed to lend his country over $4 billion to buy weapons. “There is a contract with Venezuela but [...]
