DefenceTalkChina’s largest missile-maker is promoting what it calls “the world’s best anti-ship missile” for sales in the international market. China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, one of the main defense equipment suppliers in the nation, is marketing its CM-302 supersonic anti-ship cruise missile to nations hoping to improve their naval capabilities. CM-302 is the best […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-promotes-worlds-best-anti-ship-missile-at-zhuhai-show-68548/

DefenceTalkJapan’s defense ministry requested a record budget on Wednesday, with funds for an anti-ship missile system to defend islands at the center of a territorial dispute with China. Tokyo is determined to defend the uninhabited islets in the East China Sea — administered by Japan as the Senkakus but claimed by China as the Diaoyus […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-eyes-record-defense-budget-to-develop-anti-ship-missiles-68077/

DefenceTalkTalks with the UAE, Chile, South Africa and Vietnam are in advanced stage concerning export the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile BrahMos NEW DELHI — India and Russia have agreed ‘in principle’ to export the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile, BrahMos, to third countries – the UAE, Vietnam, South Africa and Chile, Praveen Pathak, spokesman […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-russia-agree-to-export-brahmos-missiles-67542/

DefenceTalkLockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy recently completed the first Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) prototype captive-carry flight tests on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The flights were conducted at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. These initial airworthiness flight tests used a LRASM mass-simulator vehicle attached to the Navy’s F/A-18E/F to evaluate flight and handling […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-lockheed-conduct-first-lrasm-captive-carry-flights-on-f-18-66100/

DefenceTalkWeapon system tracks and engages target in LCS 4 exercise For the first time, the U.S. Navy successfully fired a tactical missile from a SeaRAM launcher on an Independence variant littoral combat ship. The missile was launched Aug. 14 during a live-fire exercise at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division sea range off the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-searam-missile-fired-us-navy-littoral-combat-ship-65403/

DefenceTalkChina is building a modern and regionally powerful navy with a limited but growing capability for conducting operations beyond China’s near-seas region. Observers of Chinese and U.S. military forces view China’s improving naval capabilities as posing a potential challenge in the Western Pacific to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain control of blue-water […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-naval-modernization-implications-for-us-navy-capabilities-3-64983/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea test-fired three anti-ship cruise missiles Saturday, following warnings from Pyongyang that it would fire on South Korean naval vessels it accuses of violating the disputed Yellow Sea border. The South Korean Defence Ministry said the three short-range KN-01 missiles were fired from a warship off the northeastern port of Wonsan. The first was […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-tests-anti-ship-cruise-missiles-seoul-64142/

DefenceTalkInitiated in 2009 in collaboration with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, DARPA’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program has been investing in advanced technologies to provide a leap ahead in U.S. surface warfare capability. The LRASM program aims to reduce dependence on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, network links and GPS navigation in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lrasm-prototype-is-three-for-three-on-successful-flight-tests-62855/

DefenceTalkBritain and France will develop new anti-ship missiles in a 500-million project that stems from a major defence cooperation agreement, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Thursday. The multi-national group MBDA has been awarded the contract to produce the helicopter-mounted missiles, which use sophisticated homing technology to attack small and medium-sized targets. The Royal Navy will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/britain-france-sign-anti-ship-missile-deal-59161/

DefenceTalkMBDA welcomes the signature of the Demonstration and Manufacture contract for the FASGW(H) / ANL (Future Anti Surface Guided Weapon (Heavy)/ Anti Navire Léger) missile on 27th March 2014. This jointly funded Anglo-French contract, valued at more than £500 million (€600 million) has been awarded to MBDA by the UK DE&S (Defence Equipment & Support) […]https://www.defencetalk.com/mbda-to-develop-fasgwh-anl-nexgen-anglo-french-anti-ship-missile-59163/