Israel and Greece signed an approximately €3 billion agreement for an integrated national air-defence network built around Israeli missile, radar and command systems.
RTX is seeing air and missile defense emerge as a major driver of Raytheon’s growth, backed by large U.S. and international orders and a widening production ramp.
The U.S. Navy will commission the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), an Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided-missile destroyer, in Whittier, Alaska, on Oct. 3, 2026.
At the center of the upgrade is the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar, paired with the Aegis Baseline 10 combat system.
Northrop Grumman sees missile defense becoming an increasingly important growth business, with demand stretching from integrated air defense systems in the Middle East to interceptor propulsion, U.S. homeland defense and national security space.
Australia’s Aegis-equipped HMAS Sydney demonstrated integrated air and missile defense capability during Exercise Pacific Dragon 2026 off Hawaii from Aug. 6 to 15.
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a Guam missile-defense prototype that connects Aegis Guam and the Integrated Battle Command System while using artificial intelligence to recommend weapons against incoming threats.
Golden Dome is intended to combine a range of capabilities into an integrated “system of systems” capable of defending the United States against aerial attack.
Northrop Grumman said IBCS has completed 34 successful flight tests involving 44 intercepts.
Estonia plans to make a preliminary decision in September on the supplier and scale of its planned ballistic-missile defence acquisition.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv is ready to buy missiles for its Patriot air defense systems.
U.S. Space Forces–Space is expanding allied integration as a seven-nation coalition shifts from information sharing toward combined space operations.
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