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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,” 30th Space Wing boss Col. Anthony Mastalir told Air Force Times Wednesday. “The moment is not...

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 completed a full flight test and is very different from the newer hypersonics weapons now in development. ...

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 America's nuclear cruise missile is one of the many issues facing President-elect Joe Biden's 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, according to a top outgoing Pentagon official. Rob Soofer, who has served as deputy assistant secr...

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, develop hypersonic weapons and solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles, and build the ability ...