Air Defense Systems

Radar systems, missile defense, and airspace protection technologies.

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China’s Air Defense Systems: HQ-9, HQ-19, HQ-29 and S-400

China’s Air Defense Systems: HQ-9, HQ-19, HQ-29 and S-400

China operates one of the largest and densest air and missile defence networks in the world. Its backbone is the long-range HQ-9 surface-to-air missile, supported...

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Spain Launches Atlas 26 Counter-Drone Exercise in Huelva With Armed Forces and Police

Spain Launches Atlas 26 Counter-Drone Exercise in Huelva With Armed Forces and Police

Spain's armed forces and state security forces began Atlas 26 on 19 October, a joint counter-drone exercise at the Médano del Loro training and firing...

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Missile Defense Layers Explained, From Boost Phase to Terminal

Missile Defense Layers Explained, From Boost Phase to Terminal

Missile defense layers exist because no single interceptor can cover a ballistic missile's whole flight, so defenders stack systems across the boost, midcourse and terminal...

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Lithuania Air Alert: Suspected Drone Debris Damages Car as Vilnius and Warsaw Disagree on Its Route

Lithuania Air Alert: Suspected Drone Debris Damages Car as Vilnius and Warsaw Disagree on Its Route

Lithuania sent residents of its central and northern regions to shelters for about an hour on Sunday morning, 18 October 2026, after radar picked up...

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Romanian F-16s Shoot Down Two Jet-Powered Geran Drones Over the Black Sea

Romanian F-16s Shoot Down Two Jet-Powered Geran Drones Over the Black Sea

Two Romanian Air Force F-16s shot down two jet-powered attack drones of the Geran family over Romania's Black Sea territorial waters on Saturday, 17 October...

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Diehl Defence, the Family Firm Behind the IRIS-T Missile

Diehl Defence, the Family Firm Behind the IRIS-T Missile

Diehl Defence is the family-owned German company behind the IRIS-T missile family, an Überlingen-based house whose ground-based air defense system became one of the Ukraine...

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Raytheon’s Coyote and KuRFS Head Overseas for the First Time, to Qatar and Jordan

Raytheon’s Coyote and KuRFS Head Overseas for the First Time, to Qatar and Jordan

Lead: RTX's Raytheon business said on October 13 that it had won a $729 million contract to supply components of its Low, Slow, Small Unmanned...

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Russia’s Air Defense Systems: S-300, S-400, S-500 and More

Russia’s Air Defense Systems: S-300, S-400, S-500 and More

Russia operates the densest ground-based air defense network in the world, built in layers from the 400 km S-400 down to shoulder-fired missiles. The systems...