The House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 9:00 a.m. ET on April 12 to review the fiscal year 2025 budget request for missile defense and missile defeat programs. Witnesses: John D. Hill, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space and Missile Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Lt. Gen. […]
A Chinese-American former engineer at a major U.S. defense contractor has been indicted on charges of violating federal export control laws after he took his work laptop, which contained classified missile technology, without authorization to China. Wei Sun, a 48-year-old Chinese-born U.S. citizen, had worked as an electrical engineer for a decade at Raytheon Missile Systems, […]
The South Korea and U.S. alliance is moving ahead with deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, a Department of Defense spokesperson has confirmed. “Everything is progressing,” said Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Logan, a defense department spokesperson. “We’ve got the intercept capability right now,” he said, alluding to two batteries of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Calling it a “very shocking” incident, South Korea’s new president on Tuesday demanded an investigation into why his office wasn’t told by defense officials about the arrival of several additional launchers for a U.S. missile defense system meant to cope with North Korea’s nuclear threat. Before taking office on May […]
The U.S. military is testing an ICBM defense system. The system will prevent attacks from long-range missiles. Intercontinental ballistic missiles can be intercepted by the ground-based Midcourse Defense interceptor.. This would protect the United States from North Korea. The system is located in California, facing the Pacific.
The South Korean defense ministry spokesman assured South Koreans they would be safe from missile attacks by North Korea even though the THAAD missile defense system is only partially constructed. Moon Sang-gyun, the South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, spoke about the U.S.-South Korea partnership in protecting against missile attacks, “We decided that the THAAD’s strategic […]
