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The GPI is being developed to knock down hypersonic missiles as they glide through the Earth's upper atmosphere at about 70 kilometers in altitude at speeds greater than Mach 5.

The UK Royal Navy (RN) is pressing ahead with plans to develop and demonstrate a suite of modular and interchangeable mission containers that are designed to support the rapid deployment of role-based capability around the fleet. Prototypes ...

The Pentagon is Preparing for China’s ICBM Double Down Tracking intercontinental ballistic missiles comes with its fair share of troubles. The Pentagon wants to make sure it can track and take out enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles flying through space to the United States. This concern has been raised due to increasing global tension, the arrival of more low-yield tactical nuclear weapons, and the pace at which Russia and China are modernizing and expanding their respective nuclear ar...

Congress should play a leading a role in steering the United States toward a strategically prudent and responsible missile defense policy—one that maximizes U.S. national security interests while averting an unnecessary nuclear arms race at a time when conventional challenges loom large.

Introducing: Vandenberg Space Force Base and Space Launch Delta 30 May 14 The National Reconnaissance Office Launch-82 vehicle, supported by Delta IV Heavy rockets, stands at Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, April 25. (Staff Sgt. Luke Kitterman/Space Force) Vandenberg Air Force Base will become Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday afternoon — the third installation to adopt the new service’s moniker so far. “For 63 years, this has been an Air Force base...

In this story, we dive in deep, going point by point throughout the flight path of a hypersonic boost-glide weapon and comparing the UCS analysis with its critiques. In essence, the critics argue the Union of Concerned Scientists got something wrong at every step of their analysis, from the technical details to the strategic implications. DARPA’s Project Falcon hypersonic testbed, HTV-2 UCS based their model on decade-old flight tests of an experimental DARPA design, HTV-2, which never comple...

A new kind of missile defense will be needed and is currently under developement.

As Biden takes office, key nuclear and missile defense decisions loom January 19 A Milestone B decision on the replacement for Americas nuclear cruise missile is one of the many issues facing President-elect Joe Bidens nuclear and missile defense experts. (Tech. Sgt. Aaron D. Allmon II/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — When U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, his national security team will have to work quickly to make calls on a number of key nuclear and missile defense decisions, a...

Why America needs a layered homeland missile defense Vic Mercado January 19 An animation from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency shows the steps involved in intercepting and destroying and intercontinental ballistic missile. Earlier this week, during the 8th congress of the Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, as reported by North Korea’s Central News Agency, Kim Jong Un referred to the U.S. as “our biggest enemy” and outlined plans to upgrade the country’s nuclear forces, d...