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Military systems and strategies to detect, track, and intercept ballistic missiles across boost, midcourse, and terminal flight phases.
Lockheed Martin unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a Patriot-family interceptor it plans to test in 2027 and field in 2031, built on a new seeker. The design keeps the Army's existing launchers and battle-command system, so a crew would field new rounds inside hardware already in service.
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Raytheon has won a multiyear contract worth up to $6.3 billion to build and sustain SM-3 Block IB interceptors as the US restocks after combat use. The figure is a ceiling spread over as many as seven years, so how much the plants build depends on orders and factory output.
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Pentagon planners have drafted three days of strikes on Iran that list its energy facilities among possible targets, The New York Times reported. Trump's pledge of no attack before the Nov. 3 midterms covers 26 days, so the supply risk belongs in plans for the weeks after the vote.
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Kim Yo-jong says Seoul and Tokyo lost track of North Korea's Oct. 3 missile, citing their range estimates of more than 700 km and about 680 km. Holders of Korean and Japanese assets have reason to price that only if the US-South Korean analysis of the flight backs her up.
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Troy Meink said the US has fielded on-orbit space control weapons, the first American acknowledgement of the kind, though he gave no detail on the weapons or their targets, leaving the consequence in the UN argument over a ban.
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One tally has the exchange running three tankers to six vessels and then five to ten; the IRGC's own statement counts twenty targets, which would make it four for one, and the only price in the material is a headline.
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A Foreign Affairs essay argues that the decision to pursue space-based interceptors has already pushed Moscow and Beijing toward bigger offensive arsenals and weapons aimed at orbit, which is a planning input for satellite-dependent firms.
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Most of the missile shield is integration work on hardware that already flies. The space-based interceptors are an invention project, and the satellite counts under discussion range from 1,900 to 7,800.
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Framework agreements with Raytheon and the Department of War cover avionics and ejector assemblies for SM-3 Block IB and IIA. The interceptor quantity talks come later.
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