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Missile Defense

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Boeing Airborne Laser ‘shoots down’ first missile

By Michael Mulcahy

20:19 August 23, 2009 PDT

The Airborne Laser provides speed-of-light capability to knock hostile missiles out of the...

On August 10, Boeing and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency were finally able to demonstrate that the US$1.1 billion Airborne Laser (ABL) program actually works. The ABL aircraft, a modified Boeing 747-400, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and located, tracked and fired on a target missile. Although a surrogate high-energy laser was used – rather than the megawatt-class laser that will ultimately arm it – instrumentation on the target verified the hit. Read More

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PAC-3 anti-ballistic missile successfully tested

By Kyle Sherer

01:08 September 19, 2008 PDT

The PAC-3 missile is the first hit-to-kill interceptor produced by the USA, and has greatl...

Lockheed Martin and the Japanese Self Defense Force have successfully tested the PAC-3 Missile against a tactical ballistic missile target, at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The PAC-3 Missile Segment is an upgrade to the Patriot air defense system, and is designed to detect, track, engage and destroy TBMs. Read More

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Airborne Laser completes activation tests

By Kyle Sherer

19:35 June 1, 2008 PDT

Airborne Laser
 Photo: USAF Photo by Jim Shryne

Boeing and the US Missile Defense Agency have completed the first laser activation testing for the Airborne Laser missile defense program. The tests involved circulating water through the laser to verify its integrity, before circulating chemicals through the laser to confirm sequencing and control. Read More

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Airborne Laser completes activation tests

By Kyle Sherer

19:35 June 1, 2008 PDT

Airborne Laser
 Photo: USAF Photo by Jim Shryne

Boeing and the US Missile Defense Agency have completed the first laser activation testing for the Airborne Laser missile defense program. The tests involved circulating water through the laser to verify its integrity, before circulating chemicals through the laser to confirm sequencing and control. Read More

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Guardian system protects commercial flights from terrorist missile threats

By Loz Blain

23:54 April 2, 2008 PDT

Northrop Grumman's GUARDIAN missile defense system for commercial airliners

Being shot out of the sky with a surface-to-air missile might not be at the forefront of your mind when traveling on a commercial airliner, but with shoulder-mounted, infra-red anti-aircraft rockets selling for as little as US$5000 in trouble spots around the world, it's perhaps surprising that it's only happened a few dozen times in recent years. Once launched, such a missile travels at twice the speed of sound towards its target, so countermeasures must be automatic and instant - which brings us to Northrop Grumman's GUARDIAN system. This anonymous-looking pod provides 360-degree laser-based missile defense for commercial airliners for a total cost of around a dollar per passenger over the aircraft's service life. Read More

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Laser modules installed on Airborne Laser prototype aircraft

By Kyle Sherer

22:01 February 28, 2008 PST

Air Borne Laser project
 Image: Lockheed Martin

February 29, 2008 In another milestone for the US Missile Defense Agency’s Airborne Laser project, the six laser modules that comprise the core of the system have been successfully installed by Northrop Grumman. Read More

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Lockheed Martin awarded $194 million for production of Army Tactical Missile System

By Kyle Sherer

17:44 February 11, 2008 PST

ATACMS
 Photo: Lockheed Martin

February 12, 2008 The US Army has given Lockheed Martin $194 million for the production of the Army Tactical Missile System, which it expects to complete by the second quarter of 2010. The contract includes the ATACMS Quick Reaction Unitary and the Block IA Missiles. Read More

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Aegis Open Architecture green lighted by U.S. Navy

By Kyle Sherer

16:02 January 13, 2008 PST

Aegis Open Architecture weapons system
 Photo: Lockheed Martin

January 14, 2008 Lockheed Martin recently received final approval from the U.S. Navy to proceed with the integration and shipboard installation of the world’s first, fully-open architecture Aegis weapon system for a major surface warship. Aegis Open Architecture is a weapon system that can absorb frequent technology refreshes and upgrades in capabilities, both from new development and separate third party products. Read More

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First succesful Japanese test for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System

By Kyle Sherer

18:39 December 18, 2007 PST

Aegis Extended Range Missile
 Photo: Ratheon

December 19, 2007 The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System has been successfully tested for the 12th time in an exercise that marks the first occasion the system has been used by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. A Japanese Kongo destroyer launched a Standard Missile-3 Block IA missile, which engaged and destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target fired from the U.S Navy’s Pacific Missile Range facility in Hawaii at a height of 60 miles above the Pacific ocean. Read More

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First-of-its-kind dual missile test intercepts targets in space

By Kyle Sherer

16:39 November 17, 2007 PST

Aegis Extended Range Missile

November 18, 2007 Raytheon's Standard Missile-3s have successfully intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles outside the Earth’s atmosphere, the first time a Navy has ship demonstrated simultaneous engagements against such targets in space. Read More

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Lockheed Martin tests guided missile impervious to GPS jamming

By Kyle Sherer

23:03 November 5, 2007 PST

MLRS Rockets
 Photo: Lockheed Martin

November 6, 2007 Lockheed Martin’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) has achieved all its test objectives in Unitary rocket Phase II product qualification test flights at White Sands Missile Range. The tests verified the missile’s ability to perform in a GPS jamming environment at long range – an essential feature for air strikes in close proximity to friendly troops, or with a low collateral damage threshold. Read More

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Boeing-led test successfully intercepts target missile

By Darren Quick

07:18 October 4, 2007 PDT

Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Photo: Boeing Company

October 4, 2007 The Boeing Company, working with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, has successfully completed a missile defense flight test resulting in the intercept of a target warhead to demonstrate the capability and reliability of the nation's only defense against long-range ballistic missiles. Read More

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Airborne Laser project achieves development milestones

By Shaun McKeegan

01:28 September 5, 2007 PDT

Airborne Laser (ABL) is an aircraft-mounted laser weapon system  	
 Photo: Lockheed Martin...

September 5, 2007 Successful testing of an aircraft mounted laser weapon system has been carried out by the US missile defense agency and industry partnership team at Edwards Air Force base in California. The Airborne Laser (ABL) team has demonstrated the ability to point and focus the Lockheed Martin developed Beam control/Fire control system on an airborne target. Read More

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Lockheed Martin tests “Multiple Kill Vehicle” missile fleet defense technology

By Loz Blain

03:45 August 28, 2007 PDT

Multiple Kill Vehicle technology allows missile defense units to destroy entire fleets of ...

August 28, 2007 The Cold War might be over, but the underlying strategy that arose with Reagan’s Star Wars missile defense program in the 1980s lives on as the threat of long-range missile attack remains a global concern. Lockheed Martin have just announced successful testing of part of the Missile Defense Agency's “Multiple Kill Vehicle” program designed to be a single-launch platform to neutralize an entire fleet of incoming enemy missiles. Read More

 
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