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Raytheon Wins MDA Gallium Nitride Radar Deal: Companies Shift To GaN
ARLINGTON: Two recent contracts make clear the military radar industry is shifting to a new gold standard, a once-obscure material called Gallium Nitride. GaN, a high-efficiency semiconductor, makes...
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Taiwan, Trump, & The Pacific Defense Grid: Towards Deterrence In Depth
The phone call between President-elect Trump and the President of Taiwan sent shock waves through the diplomatic community. But it is time to turn the page and include Taiwan in shaping a 21st century...
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We CAN Tie Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks: Navy Experts
SAN DIEGO: It’s completely possible to plug Army missile defenses into the Navy fire control network, a panel of Navy experts said Wednesday. That could make an obscure system called NIFC-CA (Naval...
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THAAD Missile Defenses Deploy To South Korea: How Will North Korea, China React?
American THAAD missile defense vehicles landed at Osan, South Korea today after almost eight months of waiting. Now the question is how the North and China react. Increasingly threatened by North...
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Will THAAD Deployment Roil Or Calm Troubled Pacific?
WASHINGTON: The deployment of improved US missile defenses to Korea, THAAD, comes at a time of growing disorder across the region. There is one constant in this equation but three major unknowns. The...
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Support IBCS, Best Missile Defense C2 We’ve Got: Former MDA Tester
America’s military has operated far too long without a truly integrated air and missile defense system and the Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) is the best answer...
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Chinese Missiles Can Wipe Out US Bases In Japan: Aegis, THAAD Can Stop Em
WASHINGTON: A Chinese surprise attack tomorrow could annihilate US forces and bases in Japan, two Navy officers found. But deploying more missile defenses — Army THAAD and Navy Aegis — would protect...
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Army Needs $45B Of Smart Weapons: Hellfire, GMLRS, ATACMS, Patriot, THAAD
ARLINGTON: Against terrorists in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, US forces are firing smart weapons like Hellfire missiles as fast as industry can build them — or faster. Against a well-armed adversary...
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Lockheed Studies Sea-Launched Patriot PAC-3 & New 6-Foot Missile
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: Lockheed Martin is studying several new air and missile defense systems, from an all-new six-foot rocket to a ship-launched version of the Patriot missile, a top executive told...
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Chinese Sanctions On North Korea? Expert Doubts They’ll Bite
WASHINGTON: President Trump was pretty excited when he announced that the central Chinese bank ordered the cessation of all financial business with North Korea. Dean Cheng, the Heritage Foundation’s...
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Army Boosts Air Defense, Key To Joint & Allied Fight
The shift from low-intensity land wars and the concepts of operations associated with them to getting ready for higher tempo and higher intensity operations are key to the transformation of U.S. and...
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Missile Defense Vs. China, Russia: Decentralize, Disperse, & Hide
WASHINGTON: China or Russia could all too easily detect and destroy US Army missile defenses, exposing American forces to devastating attack, a forthcoming study finds. Patriot and THAAD units are big...
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US, Israel Begin Joint Anti-Missile Operations In Juniper Cobra
Israel has long been threatened by Hezbollah’s short-ranged missiles, but now Iran is stepping up the threat, both from its own long-range ballistic missiles and from its proxies in Syria. In response,...
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Crucial Polish Missile Defense Site Delayed Two Years: MDA
With the Pentagon and White House increasingly worried about ballistic missile threats from “rogue” states and peer competitors, the Polish site is increasingly critical.
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Army Accelerates Air & Missile Defense Five Years: MSHORAD, MML, Lasers
Today, Brig. Gen. McIntire told me, Army field artillery and air & missile defense are like two boxers, one who can only punch and the other who can only block. “We’ve got to have one boxer that...
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Army Air & Missile Defense Faces The Future
“If something kicks off, we’re the first ones to see it,” the sergeants told us. “We’re the first ones to react. And you’re on the line, they’re coming after you.”
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Rep. Gabbard Pushes For Heftier Hawaiian Missile Defenses
Pentagon planners aren’t only worried about North Korean ICBMs, but Chinese hypersonics and medium-rage missiles. That means, according to analysts, that an array of distributed systems are needed to...
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New Tests Prove IBCS Missile Defense Network DOES Work: Northrop
“There’s a real capability that can be deployed as soon as the government says it can be,” Northrop Grumman’s Rob Jassey told me, possibly even in “months.”
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Army Awards Northrop $289M For IBCS Missile Defense Network
Chief of Staff Mark Milley declared air and missile defense the Army’s No. 5 priority — one of the Big Six which the service is pushing to accelerate, if necessary at the expense of everything else in...
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Saudis OK Billions in Arms Sales, Congress Not So Sure
WASHINGTON: Even as Congress inches toward cutting off arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Riyadh’s grinding war in Yemen, the United...
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