The scheduled deliveries of the first live Dark Eagle missiles are set to occur nearly a year before the final qualification test, underscoring the urgency of the effort to loosely match China's DF-17.

A Boeing/Nammo team has completed the first long-range test of a ramjet-powered, 155 mm artillery shell launched by a howitzer, the U.S. manufacturer announced on Aug. 9 at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium here.

The impact of inflation, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages are causing defense companies to submit “almost unaffordable” proposals for weapons contracts, the U.S. Army’s missile buyer says.

The Biden administration has announced another $1 billion in aid to Ukraine.

A cloud of suspicion hovers over aeronautical scientists in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has fired “multiple” Dongfeng-series ballistic missiles toward Taiwan as part of a three-day exercise intended to impose maximum military pressure on the island following a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

In anticipation of potential surface threats from China, the Japanese government will fast-track the research of an improved Type-12 anti-ship missile using a so-called “agile development” method. The aim is to bring forward serial production from fiscal 2026 to as early as 2023. 

The U.S. State Department on Aug. 2 approved two major air defense sales to nations in the Middle East: a possible $3.05 billion sale of MIM-104E Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia and a possible $2.245 billion sale of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missiles to the United Arab Emirates.