DefenceTalkSouth Korea, Japan and the United States held an unprecedented trilateral missile defense exercise on Tuesday, aimed at countering the growing threat from nuclear-armed North Korea which denounced it as a “military provocation.” The drill in waters off Hawaii came less than a week after North Korea flight-tested a powerful new medium-range ballistic missile that […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-south-korea-japan-hold-first-anti-north-korea-missile-drill-67743/

DefenceTalkThe United States wants to wrap up discussions with South Korea on the deployment of a sophisticated defense system, the Pentagon said Friday, two days after North Korea’s latest missile tests. Seoul and Washington have for weeks been in talks about deploying the advanced US THAAD missile system in South Korea to protect against the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-hopes-to-wrap-up-anti-missile-deal-with-south-korea-67733/

DefenceTalkTaiwan plans to test-fire its newest anti-missile system for the first time in the United States next month as relations with rival China deteriorate, a defence source and media reports said Monday. Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled rapidly under the island’s new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen, who took office in May, ending an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/taiwan-to-test-fire-missiles-in-us-as-china-tensions-rise-67729/

DefenceTalkA united crew of the Sary-Shagan Missile Range, Russian Air and Missile Defense Force and industry “conducted at 0700 hours a successful launch of a short-range antimissile of the Russian missile defense system,” the Defense Ministry’s press office told journalists. “The purpose of the launch was to prove the characteristics of the missile defense system’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-air-and-missile-defense-force-launches-ballistic-missile-interceptor-67706/

DefenceTalkIn an age when stealth is the game-changing capability everyone aspires to achieve, Russia’s top-of-the-line air defense systems, the S-400 and the S-500, will receive an upgrade that will allow them to hide from enemy satellites, spy planes and radars, Izvestiya newspaper reported, citing an anonymous source in the Russian Defense Ministry. The S-400 Triumf […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-s-400-s-500-set-to-become-invisible-to-enemies-67690/

DefenceTalkIndra will equip Spanish A400M aircraft with its InShield infrared countermeasure system (DIRCM or Directional InfraRed Counter Measures), to protect said aircraft from surface-to-air missile attacks. The contract awarded by the Ministry of Defense for the characterization and verification of the first unit is worth 4 million euros and will run until 2018. The Spanish […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indras-inshield-system-to-protect-spanish-a400m-aircraft-from-missile-attacks-67680/

DefenceTalkRussia’s new Yu-74 ultra-maneuverable hypersonic glide vehicles may become yet another response to the deployment of NATO’s missile installations in Eastern Europe, according to military analysts. Going head to head with the United States and China, Russia has been developing its own hypersonic weapons during the past few years. A hypersonic weapon usually has a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-top-secret-hypersonic-glider-can-penetrate-any-missile-defense-67648/

DefenceTalkRussia is working on setting up a joint air defence system with all of its ex-Soviet military allies, a senior official said Wednesday. “The merger of regional air defence systems will pave the way for creating a common air defence (system) over the entire territory of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation,” Nikolai Bordyuzha, the head […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-set-up-joint-air-defence-system-with-ex-soviet-allies-67623/

DefenceTalkIsrael has successfully tested a maritime missile interception system dubbed the Iron Dome of the Sea, the military announced on Wednesday. The system, which the military said can shoot down short-range rockets similar to those fired from Gaza, successfully destroyed “several” missiles, Ariel Shir, head of operational systems in the navy, said. He said the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/israel-successfully-tests-missile-defence-system-at-sea-army-67511/

DefenceTalkThe United States and Russia on Friday accused each other of mounting an aggressive military presence in northern Europe, with Moscow vowing to “end threats” posed by a US missile shield near its border. The stepped-up war of words came as Poland on Friday broke ground on the northern section of a US missile defence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-russia-step-up-war-of-words-over-missile-shield-67475/