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Raytheon gets $129 million TOW weapon system contract modification
Aug 09, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $129 million modification to a U.S. foreign military sales contract for the tube-launched, optically tracked, wirele...
Lockheed Martin's mini missile completes second flight test
Aug 03, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin's Miniature Hit-to-Kill, or MHTK, interceptor missile was successfully launched Friday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the company a...
Raytheon gets $36 million contract for RAM MK-31 improvements
Aug 02, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon Missile Systems has received a $36 million U.S. Navy contract option for the Rolling Airframe Missile upgraded MK-31 Guided Missile Weapon System impro...
Navy conducts first LCS Harpoon missile test
Jul 26, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy has conducted the first live fire over-the-horizon missile test from an LCS using a Harpoon Block IC missile, the sea service announced Monday. Th...
Lockheed demonstrates LRASM's surface launch capability
Jul 21, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin has successfully conducted a controlled flight test of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, at the Point Mugu Sea Range in California, th...
State Dept. approves $821 million SM-2 missile sale to Japan
Jul 20, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. State Department has approved a proposed $821 million sale of SM-2 Block IIIB Standard Missiles to Japan. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, whic...
Iran receives S-300 air defense missile system: Report
Jul 18, 2016 (UPI)
Iran has taken delivery of the Russian-made S-300 air missile defense system, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported Monday. Russia was to provide Iran with at...
Russia to deploy latest air defence systems in Crimea
Jul 15, 2016 (AFP)
Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defence systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday. Russia is currently u...
MBDA fires Brimstone missile from Apache helicopter
Jul 14, 2016 (UPI)
MBDA and Boeing have successfully completed a series of physical trials and firings of the Brimstone missile on Britain's future fleet of AH-64E Apache attack h...
Raytheon, Kongsberg to produce Naval Strike Missile in U.S.
Jul 13, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon and Kongsberg are finalizing plans to assemble, integrate and test the Naval Strike Missile in the United States, Raytheon announced Wednesday. The com...
Swedish AF Gripens now carry Meteor missiles
Jul 11, 2016 (UPI)
MBDA's Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile has achieved initial operating capability aboard Swedish air force Gripen fighters. Swedish company Saab, m...
N. Korea test-fires submarine-launched missile: Seoul
Jul 09, 2016 (AFP)
North Korea on Saturday test-fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Seoul's defence ministry said, a day after the US and Sout...
IAI successfully tests MRSAM defense system
Jul 07, 2016 (UPI)
Israel Aerospace Industries has reported a successful test firing of its medium-range surface-to-air missile defense system, or MRSAM, the company said Thursday...
Russian Tor-M2U air defense system arrives in Siberia
Jul 06, 2016 (UPI)
Russia's new Tor-M2U anti-aircraft missile defense systems have arrived in Siberia's Eastern Military District. The system arrived at a tank formation stationed...
State Dept. approves $140M Sea Sparrow missile sale to Chile
Jul 06, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. State Department has approved a proposed $140 million foreign military sale of Evolved Seasparrow Missiles to Chile. The proposed sale entails equipmen...
State Dept. approves SM-2 missile sale to S. Korea
Jul 06, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. State Department has approved the proposed sale of 17 SM-2 Block IIIB missiles and missile containers to South Korea for $65 million, the Defense Secur...
Raytheon gets $291M Sidewinder missile contract mod
Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $291 million modification to a fixed-price-incentive-firm U.S. Navy contract covering the procurement of 660 AIM-9X ...
Raytheon gets $23M Evolved Sea Sparrow contract
Jul 01, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon has been awarded a $23 million cost-plus-fixed fee U.S. Navy contract for a variety of support duties on the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, or ESSM, prog...
Missiles to be tested at RIMPAC exercise
Jun 30, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. and New Zealand are planning to show off missile systems during the massive Rim of the Pacific war game event that starts Thursday. New Zealand's sea s...
Varunastra missile handed over to Indian navy
Jun 30, 2016 (UPI)
The Indian navy took possession of the indigenously made, anti-submarine Varunastra electric torpedo from the Ministry of Defense during a ceremony Thursday, th...
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