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The US military’s research arm is looking for missiles that can be built in a matter of days rather than months. Loading audio narration… In recent documents posted on the government’s contracting website, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, said it’s looking for faster, cheaper ways to produce…
The first of Japan’s destroyers is ready to carry Tomahawk missiles, with live-fire testing planned in the coming months. Loading audio narration… Modifications for launching Tomahawks mark a major development in Japan’s defenses, providing the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force with a new, powerful weapon for its arsenal. Tokyo is also…
US Navy destroyers operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea have been launching SM-3s — among America’s most high-end interceptors — to defend NATO airspace against incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. Loading audio narration… On Friday, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Oscar Austin fired at least one SM-3, or Standard Missile-3, interceptor…
Iran has wielded its missiles and drones to strike most neighboring states in this ongoing war that’s raged for 10 days. However, their destructive scale has so far been blunted by the advanced defenses of Israel, the US and their regional Arab partners. Iran’s powerful regime armed forces, utilizing a…
Iranian missiles and drones are flying across the Middle East, forcing the US, Israel, and the Gulf states to expend numerous costly interceptors on air defense operations in just a few days and draw on critical weapons stockpiles.Air defense battles get expensive — fast. Official figures for the Middle East…
Iran launched missile strikes into at least six countries in retaliation for the Saturday morning attack by the US and Israel.Multiple countries across the Middle East reported Iranian bombardments, with the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, saying that it had launched attacks on US bases.Iran said it targeted at…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that his country had struck a Russian military industrial plant with locally made cruise missiles that flew nearly 900 miles to reach their target.Ukrainian officials earlier reported that the missile strike on Saturday had hit a plant in Votkinsk, an industrial town in…
