The Space Development Agency has awarded four agreements worth about $3.5 billion to build 72 Tracking Layer satellites for Tranche 3 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture in low Earth orbit.
Leonardo has signed a contract with Italian TELEDIFE for the development and delivery of the first four next generation radars designed to counter long range ballistic threats of up to 3,000 kilometres.
Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded a $168 million foreign military sales contract to supply Romania with equipment for the Patriot air and missile defence system.
Israel Aerospace Industries chief executive Boaz Levy said the delivery of the Arrow 3 system to Germany within two years of contract signing showed both IAI’s role in Germany’s air defence and the level of trust between the sides.
Poland’s Ministry of National Defense has declared Full Operational Capability for the Integrated Battle Command System-enabled WISŁA medium-range air defence system.
Poland’s Ministry of National Defense has announced that the 37th Air Defense Missile Squadron of the 3rd Warsaw Air Defense Missile Brigade in Sochaczew has achieved Full Operational Capability
Germany’s Bundestag has approved a $3.1 billion expansion of the Arrow 3 air and missile defence contract with Israel.
Lockheed Martin has marked ten years since the delivery of its THAAD system to the United Arab Emirates, the programme’s first foreign military sale and its first international deployment.
Two successful firings of the SAMP/T NG long-range air defence system were performed in France and Italy, demonstrating once again the system’s high level of performance.
Lockheed Martin says construction of its new facility for the Next Generation Interceptor is moving forward, with the 88,000-square-foot Missile Assembly Building-5 expected to be finished by early 2026.
NATO officials have underlined the growing need to reinforce the Alliance’s ground-based air defence as airspace violations, surveillance of critical infrastructure, and sabotage on Allied territory continue to rise.
The U.S. Space Force has issued a request for prototype proposals for space-based interceptors designed to destroy missiles during their midcourse phase of flight.
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