Each year the RDT&E Budget Estimates for the MDA lists planned MDA tests in the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). This year’s estimate (for fiscal year 2021) lists tests out through the four...
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2020/02/27/gmd-testing-update-february-27-2020/
This is an updated list (previous version was August 20, 2019) of claims by U.S. government officials about the effectiveness of the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse (GMD) national missile defense sys...
This is an updated list (previous version was May 31, 2018) of claims by U.S. government officials about the effectiveness of the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse (GMD) national missile defense syst...
New Aegis Radar to be 100 Times More Sensitive than Current Radar (May 22, 2019) In my post of February 11, 2019, I discussed a number of planned new S-band radars, including the Navy’s Air and...
On March 25, 2019 the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted FTG-11, a salvo test of the US Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system in which two interceptors were fired, just under a min...
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2019/04/04/what-did-ftg-11-actually-prove-april-4-2019/
In my post of February 11 2019, I discuss what is publicly known about the Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) now under construction in central Alaska and the closely related Homeland Defense...
Now that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) budget materials are available, I have compiled a list of MDA’s planned flight tests and intercept tests out through 2024 (there is one test listed for...
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2019/03/27/upcoming-mda-flight-and-intercept-tests-march-27-2019/
The Navy plans to equip its new Flight III Aegis destroyers with its new SPY-6 radar. The SPY-6 is made up of 37 self-contained Radar Module Assemblies (RMAs). The SPY-6 is expected be at lea...
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2019/03/25/aegis-spy-1-radar-upgrade-march-25-2019/
The FY 2020 RDT&E budget documentation for the Missile Defense Agency is now out, and unlike the previous year’s materials it includes currently planned quarterly dates for flight and intercept...
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2019/03/19/gmd-testing-update-march-19-2019/
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) presented their proposed budget for FY 2019 yesterday. Although there is not yet any information about the budget posted on their website, a video of the briefi...
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2019/03/13/mda-briefing-on-fy-2020-budget-march-13-2019/