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Iran is ramping up its missile production as it eyes a potential future conflict with Israel.
Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Iran Ramping Up Missile Production As Another Potential War With Israel Looms

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 10, 2025

Lockheed Martin is aiming to conduct an on-orbit demonstration of at least one space-based anti-missile interceptor design no later than 2028.
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Lockheed To Test Golden Dome Space-Based Missile Interceptor In Orbit By 2028

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 21, 2025

A Russian strategic nuclear forces (SNF) officer inspects a launching tube in the launching center of intercontinental ballistic missiles 20 March 1992 in Drovjanaja, near Cita, in Siberia. The strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation consist of ground intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBM) stationary, and also mobile, earth and railway variants of basing, sea and aviation strategic nuclear arms.
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Soviets Tested ICBM Silo Defense System That Showered Incoming Warheads With Clouds Of Metal Darts

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 17, 2025

Taiwan has officially rolled out a new anti-ballistic missile system called Chiang Kung, or Strong Bow, which it says is now in production.
Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Taiwan Just Unveiled Its Own High-Altitude Anti-Ballistic Missile System

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 17, 2025

F-22s over alaska
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Homeland Needs To Be Able To Survive A “Punch In The Nose” According To Former NORAD Chief

Howard Altman Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 5, 2025

A bevy of previously unseen missiles has been capturing particular attention as China prepares for a huge military parade on September 3, 2025.
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All The New Chinese Missiles Spotted During Its Massive Military Parade Rehearsal

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 19, 2025

A surge in Russian use of ballistic missiles with enhanced maneuvering capabilities has cut into the effectiveness of Ukraine's Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has confirmed.
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Ukraine’s Patriots Now Struggling To Intercept Enhanced Russian Ballistic Missiles

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Aug 15, 2025

The U.S. Army reportedly fired over 150 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile interceptors to help defend Israel during its 12-day war with Iran earlier this year.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)

150 THAAD Ballistic Missile Interceptors Fired By U.S. During Iran’s Barrages On Israel: Report

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 25, 2025

Northrop Grumman is conducting ground-based testing related to space-based interceptors as part of a competition for that segment of the Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defense initiative.
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Space-Based Missile Interceptors For Golden Dome Being Tested By Northrop

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 22, 2025

The U.S. Army plans to stand up four new Patriot surface-to-air missile system battalions in the coming years to help ease strain on what it says is its "most stressed force element."
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Overstretched U.S. Army Patriot Air Defense Force To Grow By A Quarter

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 14, 2025

Iran fired at least one ballistic missile with a warhead containing multiple submunitions as part of a particularly destructive barrage on Israel earlier today.
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Iran Just Used Ballistic Missiles With Cluster Warheads To Strike Israel

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 19, 2025

The U.S. Navy is sending the supercarrier USS Nimitz and the rest of its strike group to the Middle East amid a new buildup of forces in the region ostensibly for defensive purposes, U.S. officials have told TWZ.
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Major U.S. Middle East-Focused Buildup Confirmed (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 16, 2025

Israel is now attacking Iranian energy facilities after warning it would if Iran didn't stop hitting Israeli urban areas.
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Israel Escalates To Attacking Iranian Energy Targets After Ballistic Missiles Hit Tel Aviv (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jun 15, 2025

Dramatic footage is emerging online as Iran has begun launching a huge ballistic missile barrage against Israel as part of its retaliatory strikes.
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Iran Strikes Back (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 13, 2025

Open feuding between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, until recently close friends and political allies, has shone a particular light on how heavily reliant the U.S. government, and America's armed forces especially, has become on SpaceX.
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This Is How U.S. National Security Has Become Dependent On SpaceX

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 6, 2025

In January, the U.S. military moved to halt work on the new AN/TPY-6 radar, one of seven key elements of the huge new air and missile defense architecture taking shape on Guam, and its current status is now unclear.
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Uncertainty Over AN/TPY-6 Guam Missile Defense Radar Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 27, 2025