The Trump administration’s narrative on the Iran war is changing by the day.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was caught in his own lie by CBS News’s Margaret Brennan, who reminded him Sunday that America’s depleted missile stockpile was not a media fabrication but actually a material reality that he testified to before Congress.
“Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy was on this program a few weeks…
Diehl Defence will explore using Spire’s constellation for detection of ballistic and hypersonic missile threats
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In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay goes through some of the details of the enormous return on investment US money to Israel has been bringing to America.
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The low-orbit satellite constellation is intended to track aircraft, cruise missiles and other airborne threats
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The leaders of the Pentagon’s Golden Dome program say a new “Ecosystem Hub” will make it easier for companies to pitch technology for the effort and for the government to monitor supply chain and cyber risks.
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A Congressional Budget Office estimate that pegs the 20-year cost of the Pentagon’s Golden Dome program at $1.2 trillion dollars is based on inaccurate assumptions about the advanced missile shield’s architecture, according to the general in charge of the project.
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Gen. Michael Guetlein defends plan to pursue space-based interceptors but warns affordability remains central challenge
The Air Force wants to spend more than a half billion dollars through 2031 on a new protection system designed for cargo and refueling aircraft that features onboard sensors and weapons to track and take down enemy missiles and drones.
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Contracts with 12 companies aim to test competing designs for boost-phase missile intercept from space
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Officials say program unnecessary given existing self-censorship
The Air Force wants to funnel $1.4 billion into air base defense with new weapon systems designed to protect homeland installations and forward-deployed airfields against drones and missile threats, Air Force budget officials said April 21.
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“Pyongyang must immediately halt its successive missile provocations,” thunders South Korea’s defence ministry.
COLORADO SPRINGS – U.S. government agencies are working with industry to develop tools to disrupt missiles before they take flight, a timespan called ‘left of launch.’ “We’re looking at different aspects of the threat as it evolves,” Erich Hernandez-Baquero, Raytheon Intelligence and Space vice president of space intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, said at the Space Symposium. […]
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The tech industry’s pursuit of space-based AI data centers could have positive implications for military space operations, potentially enabling faster communication speeds from multiple orbits for programs like Golden Dome, industry and defense officials said March 24.
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WASHINGTON – National missile warning and tracking could be improved if all government agencies shared the raw data they gather. “There are agencies that have sensors that can provide data that would be very supplemental to the missile-defense mission, but they designed it for a completely different purpose,” Devin Elder, Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems […]
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Guetlein: ‘We were asked to procure some additional space capabilities’
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The Pentagon has increased its baseline cost projection for its Golden Dome advanced missile defense shield by $10 billion in recent months due to demand for more space sensing, tracking, and data transport capabilities, the general in charge of the effort said March 17.
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New facility to support electronics and software development for missile defense and space programs
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Iran has systematically destroyed U.S. missile defense systems across the Middle East over the last 13 days, opting to surgically dismantle the eyes and ears of America’s regional defense systems rather than go toe-to-toe with the country’s raw firepower.
The Pentagon confirmed that Iran’s military hit Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, wrecking a radar system valued at $300 million.
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Reconciliation boost lifts 2026 totals, but sustainability questions loom for missile defense and Space Development Agency
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‘Our interceptors will actively track hypersonic threats and shortly before impact will deploy large particle clouds’
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At SmallSat Symposium, executives cite enduring missile threat as rationale for continued investment
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The Defense Innovation Unit, the Pentagon’s commercial technology hub, plans to demonstrate low-cost, commercially derived missile defense sensors on orbit within the next two years, according to a new notice to industry.
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