Missiles

Paris: Pan-European missile maker MBDA bought the remaining 50% of rocket-engine supplier Roxel from co-owner Safran, in a move the company expects will help it ramp up production in the face of surging demand. MBDA...

Bhubaneswar: The final round test of the solid fuel ducted ramjet (SFDR) propulsion-based missile system was conducted successfully by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from a defence facility off Odisha coast on...

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies provided the Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) target and propulsion for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA (SM-3 Blk IIA) used in the Missile Defence Agency’s (MDA) latest successful test aimed...

Berlin: The shallow waters of the Baltic Sea have become a secondary arena of confrontation in the larger standoff between the East and the West. Fears of hybrid warfare, coupled with key vulnerabilities on...

Paris: British Army troops fired a high-energy laser from an armoured vehicle for the first time, using beams of infrared light to destroy dozens of flying drones, in what may be a cost-effective way...

Washington: The Missile Defence Agency (MDA) intercepted an incoming ballistic missile threat target in a test from Guam, according to an agency announcement. The test is the “first ballistic missile defence event executed from...

Sydney: Australia has joined the US and UK as one of the tiny club of countries that can launch the Tomahawk cruise missile, with its legendary accuracy and range of more than 2,500 kilometres. The...

Washington: In a first, the US Army and Lockheed Martin fired two new Precision Strike Missiles, or PrSMs, in a salvo test shot as part of production qualification flight testing at White Sands Missile...

Warsaw: In a major step towards ramping up NATO’s missile-defence capabilities, the alliance took control of the Aegis Ashore Missile Defence System (AAMDS) in Redzikowo, northern Poland, earlier this month. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk...

Washington: A first-of-its-kind test facility unveiled earlier this month at the University of Notre Dame could improve the Pentagon’s hypersonic research and test enterprise. Through a partnership with the Navy, the university has spent the...

Washington: The Pentagon announced a new hypersonic testing partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom, an agreement focused on improving facilities and information sharing across the three countries. The partnership — dubbed the Hypersonic Flight...

New Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is advancing its missile capabilities with the development of the Astra MK-IV, a brand new Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) aimed at countering enemy fifth-generation...

New Delhi: India achieved a historic milestone in defence technology by successfully conducting a flight trial of a long-range hypersonic missile on November 16.  The missile, indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation...