tactical ballistic missile defense

IAI's Barak achieved several milestones this week: 1. First operational intercept via the Barak Magen naval air defense system. The Barak Magen is a Barak system integrated into the Magen class Sa'ar 6 ship's systems. Now the IAF released a statement that an IAF-operated Barak system, notice...

View: https://x.com/masao_dahlgren/status/1933595883410440421 Like a game of Missile Command. Also drives home the difference between the missiles we typically see landing in Ukraine and those coming from Iran. The Iranian missiles are glowing due to their higher speed (because they had to...

I just read the "top level budget proposal" linked here: https://spacenews.com/white-house-budget-proposal-would-phase-out-sls-and-orion-scale-back-iss-operations/ (it was suggested by Flyaway in post #98 of the thread White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent). In the...

Today, Fincantieri has officially handed over, at Muggiano shipyard, the amphibious vessel LPD “Al Fulk” to the Ministry of Defence of Qatar as the completion of a significant naval program for the Qatari Navy. This unit, equipped with a large flight deck that can host NH90 helicopters, a...

Israeli SKy Dew Aerostat long range airborne warning aerostat https://theaviationist.com/2021/11/04/israel-sky-dew/?fbclid=IwAR2X2u_0hcfOTjcNxYaki4SKw27vv-twYErbuTDz_4rJ_nAFq4b3eYd7wkA

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/169661/israel-mod-confirms-arrow-3-test-success.html "This morning, the Ministry of Defense along with the US Missile Defense Agency, conducted the first successful test using the "Arrow 3" defense system designated for interception of...

I guess people can now get fired for buying IBM. "Navy Needs New Servers for Aegis Cruisers and Destroyers After Chinese Purchase of IBM Line" By: Megan Eckstein May 5, 2015 2:16 PM Source...

I am in search of something other than the usual poor quality generic drawings (see attached image) and partial images of this weapon that I have already found on-line through several google searches. Is there any thing else available on the AGM-69 SRAM and any proposed derivatives of this...

Defender - A high altitude (>20 km) UAV with a semiconductor diode laser pumped solid state heat capacity laser weapon for boost phase destruction of tactical ballistic missiles. The vehicle has a lethal kill radius of up to 200 km. (courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Scaled...

For anyone interested, the following is a paper describing a possible airborne free-electron laser. It differs from the the ABL currently being developed for the USAF in that it does not use chemicals to generate a beam. You can download the pdf if you are interested in viewing the...