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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.

Pentagon budget 2022: Missile Defense Agency budget ticks lower at USD8.9 billion by Daniel Wasserbly The White House’s proposed budget for the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continues a slow downward trend for the agency, with USD8.917 billion requested in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022). MDA had budgeted for USD9.187 billion in FY 2021, USD9.431 billion in FY 2020, and USD10.491 billion in FY 2019. The FY 2022 request, which is likely to be somewhat altered by lawmakers who must then pass it in...

Pentagon budget 2022: MDA seeks USD1.733 billion for strategic missile defence programme by Daniel Wasserbly The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is requesting about USD1.733 billion in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) to improve its strategic missile defence system, including USD926.1 million to develop a new interceptor. MDA had requested USD1.9 billion in FY 2021 to improve its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) homeland missile defence system, which included USD664.1 million to kick off a Next G...

‘Wholly inadequate’: GOP slams Biden’s defense budget despite record investment in tech Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner Republicans did not even need to see the hard numbers to outright reject President Joe Biden’s proposed $715 billion defense budget despite record technology investments intended to confront China. The fiscal year 2022 defense budget reflects an $11 billion increase over the enacted amount. Still, it falls 0.4% short of inflation and...

The images of Israels Iron Dome missile defense system deployed against thousands of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza made clear that effective missile defense is a matter of life and death.

America's current Ground-based Midcourse Defense system was simply not designed or built to counter emerging threats.

VT Warning: SouthFront is sanctioned by the US as a KGB front, comment on this. The United States is scrambling to develop its Next-Generation Interceptor as quickly as possible. Estimations put the program’s cost at $18 billion. The Next-Generation interceptor specifically refers to a weapon to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). The development itself is expected to cost $13 billion, and then sustainment and procurement would be “a bit” over $2 billion. The Pentagon anno...

How Good is Russia’s New Missile Interceptor? What kind of interceptor is the new Russian weapon? Having an idea would give the Pentagon a much sought-after advantage. The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the existence of a new interceptor, or missile defense technology. It is apparently intended to challenge U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and countermeasures in new and potentially unprecedented ways.  “Russia’s Aerospace Force has successfully test-launched a ne...

America Is Replacing Its Old ICBMs—Here Is What Know About the New Missiles Long considered urgent by Pentagon weapons developers given the age and obsolescence of the existing Minuteman III ICBMs, the program recently completed its first major design review, a crucial step to its planned deployment in 2029. Heres What You Need To Remember: The GBSD missile with last into the 2080s and will feature several important upgrades. The Pentagon is taking new steps to prepare a new arsenal of U...

Watchdog expresses concern over using US Navy interceptor for homeland missile defense 7 hours ago Can the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor be upgraded to counter evolving ICBM threats to the U.S. homeland without breaking the bank? The Government Accountability Office is unsure. (Ryan Keith/U.S. Army) In a report released this week, the GAO said the SM-3 Block IIA could “introduce considerable cost, schedule, and performance uncertainty to a program that has just entered initial production.�...