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A single arms sale runs through a legally defined pipeline of requests, offers, and congressional review windows before a single interceptor ships, and the numbers behind that pipeline are public.
Nils AndersenThe Royal Australian Air Force's flagship air combat exercise runs from July 20 to August 7 from Darwin and Tindal, with Italy, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Spain flying for the first time.
Nils AndersenPer Reuters on April 24, 2026, the US Space Force signed agreements with a dozen companies — including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Anduril — to build competing space-based missile defense interceptor prototypes.
Nils AndersenBerlin announced in May 2026 that a Patriot air and missile defense battery will deploy to Turkey from late June through September, taking over from a US unit on NATO rotation.
Nils AndersenThe 41st Balikatan exercise, the largest iteration yet between Manila and Washington, ran from April 20 to May 8 with integrated air and missile defense among its core missions.
Nils AndersenRTX's Raytheon announced a $627 million direct commercial sales award from the Netherlands covering Patriot air and missile defense equipment, announced April 8, 2026.
Nils AndersenDefense Minister Martin Pfister said on April 1, 2026 that terminating the US Patriot purchase entirely remains an option while Bern withholds payments pending binding delivery guarantees.
Nils AndersenBefore any long-range interceptor is released, a mechanical question-and-answer exchange between an interrogator and a transponder has to say the target is not a friend — here is how that system works and where it breaks.
Nils AndersenThe 325th Fighter Wing led the winter iteration of the Air Force's premier air combat exercise, which ran at Nellis from February 2 to 13 with night flying throughout.
Nils AndersenThe third major tranche of SHIELD multiple-award contracts, announced January 15, 2026, widens a ceiling-based pool of missile defense contractors to well over two thousand firms.
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