Missile Defense
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BAE Systems has been awarded a US Navy US$36.7 million contract to build an advanced dual-band Fiber-Optic Towed Decoy (FOTD) designed to protect military aircraft from missile attacks. It works by jamming or confusing missile radar systems.
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Researchers are looking to the common dragonfly for clues to develop smaller, more efficient missile defenses. By replicating the predatory insect's brain in a computer algorithm, the goal is to create interceptors that can lock on to threats much faster and achieve a much higher kill ratio.
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In a recent US Army live fire exercise, an automatic countermeasure system successfully deflected 15 out of 15 anti-tank guided missile attacks. The Lockheed Martin Modular Active Protection Systems detected incoming missiles and deflected them off target by jamming their guidance signals.
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The Royal Navy has showed off its latest missile in the first successful test of the Sea Ceptor air defence system. Britain's Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin announced that the live-fire test of the supersonic missile took place off the coast of Scotland from the Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll.
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Boeing and Northrop Grumman have stolen a march on rival Lockheed Martin, announcing today in separate releases that they'd won US Air Force contracts to develop preliminary designs for the next generation of American ICBMs.
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The US Defense Department announced today that for the first time its Ground-based Midcourse Defense system has intercepted an ICBM dummy warhead somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in a demonstration of the system’s capability to detect, engage, and destroy targets while still in space.
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Russia has moved to update its nuclear arsenal with an extreme-range, massive payload ICBM designed specifically to defeat anti-missile systems. Capable of traversing the planet's poles and blowing up Texas in one hit, meet the RS-28 Sarmat, or Satan 2.
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The US Navy recently conducted tests off the coast of California of Raytheon's SeaRAM, which fires supersonic, self-guided missiles against in-coming close-range threats. During these exercises, the USS Coronado successfully detected, tracked, and engaged an inbound target.
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BAE Systems has submitted a proposal to the US Army’s Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) program. Once operational, the system will safeguard rotary and light fixed-wing aircraft, increasing survivability against the threat posed by infrared missiles.
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Lockheed Martin has conducted the first guided test flight of the Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor rocket intended to provide protection from rockets, artillery, and mortar fire on the battlefield.
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Boeing is developing a truck-mounted, solid-state, high-energy laser system designed to counter rockets, artillery, mortars and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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US defense contractor Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the US government to supply Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles (EKV) as part of the American Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) missile defense system.