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/PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] today reported third quarter 2021 net sales of $16.0 billion, compared to $16.5 billion in the third...

North Korea’s nuclear, missile, and conventional forces are a formidable threat to the United States and its allies in northeast Asia. Pyongyang’s history of provocation and intimidation is a consistent indicator of the regime’s intent to achieve its political objectives through the threat or execution of force.

Moscow and Washington should also intensify constraints on the main driver of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense programs—North Korea’s increasingly sophisticated threats.

Lockheed Martin says its proposal for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Next Generation Interceptor could be fielded as early as 2027.

The Biden Administration’s missile defense review (MDR) has been underway since early summer 2021 and will likely be completed by the end of the year or early in 2022.REF The Obama Administration conducted a Ballistic Missile Defense Review

This technique, which defense industry contractors have been developing over the years, enables a weapon to detect threats from decoys and countermeasures while firing multiple interceptors at a volley of enemy ICBMs traveling through the air. 

Capitol Region Radar. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies on Aug. 17, Commander of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command Gen. Glen

The Missile Defense Agency's budget request is the same today as it was in 2008. That has to change, says Rebeccah Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute.

A push is underway to create a next-generation interceptor by the end of the decade. The Pentagon is massively fast-tracking its Next-Generation Interceptor program to deploy a missile defense technology capable of tracking and destroying a new sphere of enemy threats to include high-speed, precision-guided intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and hypersonic weapons potentially traveling through space.  Mobile ICBM launchers, nuclear weapons traveling at hypersonic speeds, multiple prec...

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...