Lasers To Kill Cruise Missiles Sought By Navy, Air Force, Army
Impressed by tests against low-flying drones, the services are collaborating to increase both power and precision to take on tougher threats.
Impressed by tests against low-flying drones, the services are collaborating to increase both power and precision to take on tougher threats.
According to updated intelligence, the Iranians are investing big sums to upgrade their cruise missiles and build new ones. Israel has been worried for some time by this threat and improved its Barak-8 air defense missile systems to try and minimize any capabilities gaps.
Unlike Patriot, LTAMDS can watch for drones, missiles, and planes coming from all directions at once. A single LTAMDS side panel is twice as powerful as the entire Patriot radar.
Raytheon's Howler could shore up a critical weak spot in Patriot: defense against low-and-slow threats like drones.
“It was developed for a very specific threat and it does incredible things...we intend to operate it differently -- in support of an Army on the move. It’s not just going to be static.”
"We’ve seen this coming," but governments "haven't been preparing to go after not only UAS but cruise missiles."
DoD goes back to the drawing board to replace its missile interceptors. Can they make it work this time?
“We have been been given a lawful order by the president to respond to this crisis on the border and we’re doing that,” a Pentagon official said.
The potential threat from Chinese batteries will only grow as Beijing continues to militarize small islands outside of its territorial waters, claiming them as their own.
Scrapping Boeing's Redesigned Kill Vehicle program -- which was put on hold in March -- will kick off a new effort to build a modernized generation of ballistic missile interceptors.
The test puts the nail in the coffin of the INF Treaty, which the US withdrew from earlier this month.
"This is a radar they're going to buy for, I don't know, 30 years? So you want to make sure you've got new technology that can meet the threats of the future."
Innovators who put forward the most promising white papers will be invited to pitch their idea to officials representing not only the Army but the other services, the joint Combatant Commands, and independent organizations like the Missile Defense Agency.
The test was a big achievement for two much-criticized programs: the Joint Strike Fighter and the Army's IBCS network -- and for the services' struggle to work better together in a future war.