DefenceTalkTwo cutting-edge S-400 missile systems have been deployed to Russia’s Arctic region north of the polar circle over the past year, a military source has revealed. The news comes as Russia reasserts its military presence in the Arctic. The surface-to-air missile systems have been deployed to the Novaya Zemlya archipelago and to the Yakutian port […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-deploys-s-400-missile-defense-systems-in-arctic-66009/

DefenceTalkThales has signed a subcontract for the verification of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) architecture on the Integrated Test Bed in The Hague. The work is part of the contract awarded to prime contractor Leidos by NATO earlier this year. Under the contract, US-based Leidos and its eight teammates from […]https://www.defencetalk.com/thales-awarded-ballistic-missile-defence-test-and-integration-subcontract-65887/

DefenceTalkWAKE ISLAND, U.S. Territory: Lockheed Martin, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and the Missile Defense Agency successfully conducted a multifaceted operational test of the ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) that resulted in the successful intercepts of multiple air and missile targets launched within moments of one another. In the test, the Terminal High-Altitude […]https://www.defencetalk.com/aegis-successfully-destroy-multiple-targets-in-missile-defense-test-65747/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Pacific Command conducted a complex operational flight test of the BMDS demonstrating a layered defense architecture. The test, designated Flight Test Operational-02 Event 2a, was conducted in the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ballistic-missile-defense-system-demonstrates-layered-defense-65732/

DefenceTalkAs consumers, many of our items contain a “use by” or “best before” date. In the aviation and missile community, the same principle applies to its weaponry arsenal. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, or AMRDEC, in conjunction with Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, or PEO MS, and U.S. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-researchers-extend-missile-system-shelf-life-65651/

DefenceTalkMoscow calls for abandoning of plans to place US missile defense systems in Romania, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of Non-proliferation, Disarmament, and Arms Control said, as quoted by the ministerial website Monday. According to Mikhail Ulyanov, placing the systems in Romania would be a flagrant violation by the United States of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-calls-on-us-to-abandon-plans-to-place-missile-defense-in-romania-65638/

DefenceTalkNavy destroyer USS Carney arrived at its new home in southern Spain on Friday (25 September, 2015), the fourth American multi-mission ship to be stationed in Europe and contribute to NATO’s ballistic missile defence shield. “The arrival of the USS Carney marks an important step for European security and for transatlantic cooperation,” said NATO Secretary […]https://www.defencetalk.com/fourth-us-missile-defence-ship-arrives-at-its-new-home-port-in-spain-65503/

DefenceTalkThales announced today at DSEI that it has signed a contract with Global Komited, a company within The Weststar Group, to supply the Malaysian Armed Forces with ForceSHIELD, the Thales integrated Advanced Air Defence system. In addition to the STARStreak missiles, the system comprises CONTROLMaster 200 radar and weapon coordination systems, RAPIDRanger and RAPIDRover mobile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/malaysia-orders-thales-integrated-air-and-missile-defense-systems-65389/

DefenceTalkThe Russian anti-missile warning system has the primary task to detect a missile attack and pass on the data to the anti-missile defense system. Based on the system of missile warning the information about the extent and source of attack provides the defenses with needed calculation to respond. The anti-missile warning system consists of a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-anti-missile-warning-system-protects-on-multiple-tiers-65073/

DefenceTalkThe Pentagon’s Missile Defense System is working on plans to develop a high-altitude, long-endurance drone armed with a compact, electrically powered laser capable of shooting down ballistic missiles. The original Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) was a Boeing 747 with a crew and tanks of toxic chemicals to generate power. That Pentagon mothballed the aircraft in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-missile-defense-agency-developing-laser-drone-65047/