The new Missile Defense Agency Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves said he is confident the United States is prepared and equipped to defend the homeland against a North Korean nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile threat.
Amid nuclear tensions with North Korea, the president boasted America's nuclear arsenal is “far stronger and more powerful than ever before.” But is it?
Boeing and General Dynamics Land Systems have teamed up to build a short-range air defense system on a Stryker combat vehicle and plan to demonstrate the capability at a SHORAD shoot-off hosted by the Army next month.
The U.S. cannot fall into the trap of focusing on warfighting domains when debating responses to an adversary, said Gen. John Hyten, the head of United States Strategic Command.
President Donald Trump threatened North Korea “with fire and fury like the world has never seen” on Tuesday after reports suggested the communist country has mastered one of the final hurdles to being able to strike the United States with a nuclear missile.
The U.S. Army’s modern air and missile defense force is neither resilient enough or adequately prepared for high-end air and missile threats, nor will it be for the foreseeable future.
As countries in Europe look to missile defense as a means for deterrence and response amid threats of insurgency, system type and investment amount vary – with the Eastern Flank and other countries bordering Russia among the big spenders.
The Pentagon’s Ballistic Missile Defense Review is underway and lawmakers, through both the House and Senate defense policy bills, are signalling the direction they want to go when it comes to developing the future defense architecture against both regional and homeland missile threats.
