In a move to strengthen the United States missile defence capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a contract ...

The follow-on contract will cost $2.8bn over the next five years, with options to extend development as the Pentagon prioritise air defence.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$2.8 billion contract from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for a follow-on ...

Read about the IDIQ follow-on contract MDA awarded to Lockheed for the development of the THAAD weapon system.

US soldiers have launched high-tech interceptor missiles from inside Israel for the first time since the system was deployed earlier this year. Footage on social media showed what security sources ...

The Defense Department has awarded Lockheed Martin a potential $2.8 billion, 10-year-long contract to continue adding advanced capabilities to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, including ...

It intercepts an inbound missile by striking it rather than exploding nearby. The US Army began developing THAAD in 1992, and it entered service in 2008. Its first operational intercept in combat ...

The US Army began developing THAAD in 1992, and it now has seven batteries, several of which are outside the continental US. A typical battery consists of nearly 100 soldiers, six truck-mounted ...

The new-old President of the US Donald Trump refuses to fight other peoples’ wars, and so the US presence in the Middle East, ...

The Army’s 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, the only U.S. Patriot missile battalion based in Europe, transferred its Patriot missile defense mission in Poland to German forces.

but traditional Army air defense systems like Patriot and THAAD are too expensive to field at a constellation of tiny bases. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has suggested that the Air Force ...