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Edgewing has opened a Turin engineering hub bringing together UK, Italian and Japanese teams to develop the Global Combat Air Programme’s next-generation fighter. Separately, Lockheed Martin unveiled PAC-3 Edge, an interceptor with a new seeker, upgraded flight controls and a Northrop Grumman-supplied multi-pulse rocket motor, designed to counter hypersonic threats.
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Edgewing has opened a Turin engineering hub bringing together UK, Italian and Japanese teams to develop the Global Combat Air Programme’s next-generation fighter. Separately, Lockheed Martin unveiled PAC-3 Edge, an interceptor with a new seeker, upgraded flight controls and a Northrop Grumman-supplied multi-pulse rocket motor, designed to counter hypersonic threats.
A Royal United Services Institute study says Moscow has incentives to use a nuclear weapon in space to disable proliferated satellite networks that support U.S. missile defenses. The warning highlights the exposure of space-based defense infrastructure to attacks with potentially broad effects across satellite networks.
After a July cabinet meeting at Camp David, President Donald Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to call Steve Feinberg. The episode frames Feinberg’s role in addressing the Pentagon’s missile challenge, bringing a Wall Street veteran into a high-stakes defense problem.
Blackbeard, part of the U.S. Army’s push to make hypersonic weapons more mobile and affordable, has been shown launching from a ground-based launcher. The report provides no further details on the missile’s performance or program schedule.
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The multi-year award covers production and sustainment of Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors as the Pentagon works to replenish missile-defense inventories and increase munitions output. It follows a framework agreement between the Defense Department and Raytheon to expand production of the interceptor.
South Korea says it has successfully tested its first domestically developed hypersonic glide vehicle. President Lee Jae-myung called for the system’s rapid deployment, marking a step from development testing toward a potential operational capability.
Tiberius Aerospace is discussing SCEPTRE, a liquid-fueled ramjet munition designed to fire from a 155mm howitzer and reach targets as far as 150 km away. The concept combines artillery launch with substantially extended reach, according to the available description.
Space-based systems could detect and track incoming missile threats, with interception carried out from land or space, a satellite company CEO says. The argument links concerns over Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles to a broader role for satellites in missile-warning and defense architectures.
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