The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC, to be the management and operating contractor for the National Security Campus (NSC) in Kansas City, Missouri. The primary mission of the NSC is the production and procurement of electrical, electronic, mechanical, electro-mechanical, plastic, and metal components...
North Korea test-fired a newly deployed anti-ship rockets, after a month of the countrys claim that its navy tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile, various media reported today. The “highly intelligent” rockets accurately detected and hit their target
Rebel Yemini forces are reported to have accelerated their missile attacks on Saudi targets over the weekend after an earlier Scud attack on a Saudi base claimed the life of the countrys air force chief. The Iranian FARS news agency reported, “the Yemini (rebel) army and Ansarullah (Shia Houthi forces) fired...
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un participated in a photo session with scientists, technicians, workers and officials who were part of the successful test-fire of the submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) by the countrys navy earlier this month. “When Kim Jong Un appeared in the venue of the photo session, all...
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will test-fire a configured version of an interceptor missile from Wheeler Island on April 6. It will be launched against an electronic target missile for validating its capability to carry warheads and minimise the mis-distance, The Hindu reported on Monday
The Indian army will be getting the Akash "area defence" missile systems, which have an interception range of over 25 km in all weather conditions, from next month. "The fully-automated Akash system is designed to defend the country's vital and vulnerable areas against medium-range air targets penetrating from low, medium and high altitudes
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket successfully launched the ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite on Wednesdays for the US Air Force. This mission was launched aboard a Delta IV Medium-plus (4,2) configuration Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) using a single ULA common booster core powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68 main engine, along with two Orbital ATK GEM-60 solid rocket motors
Russia has successfully test-fired an RS-26 Rubezh ballistic missile that can penetrate the sophisticated missile defenses. The missiles dummy warhead hit its target at the Sary Shagan range in Kazakhstan just minutes after takeoff from the Kapustin Yar rocket launch and development site in the southern Astrakhan region on March 18, Kommersant newspaper reported Thursday
Program cost of the US designed Ballistic Missile Defense System has increased by 5.9 percent, making a total of nearly $140 billion
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Airbus Defence and Space to provide satellite airtime for air and ground tracking of ground assets and helicopters on a worldwide basis. The contract is for the provision of Iridium Short Burst Data and Iridium Rudics Data Minutes for the MOD's established Asset Tracking System (ATS), Helicopter ATS (HeATS) and Ground ATS (GrATS), the company announced in its press release on Wednesday
Pakistan has test fired a surface-to-surface ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a distance of 2,750 kilometers, the Pakistani Armys Directorate of Inter-Services-Intelligence (ISI) Public Relations announced in its statement on Monday. Pakistan media has claimed that most Indian Cities fall under the range of the missile
Italian Ministry of Defense and French Defense procurement agency DGA will Ariane 5 launch Sicral 2 military telecommunications satellite on April 15, Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Finmeccanica said in a statement Wednesday. After being developed at the Thales Alenia Space plants in Rome, lAquila, Cannes and Toulouse, the satellite has been integrated in Rome and Turin facilities and then underwent environmental tests at the company's plant in Cannes