Dated reporting on contract signatures, deliveries, exercises, deployments and program milestones, sourced to ministries, filings or verified imagery.
Per 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.
Berlin 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.
The 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.
RTX's Raytheon announced a $627 million direct commercial sales award from the Netherlands covering Patriot air and missile defense equipment, announced April 8, 2026.
Defense 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.
Before 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.