China maintains the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the world. Since the end of the Cold War, Beijing has rapidly modernized its missile force, growing from a small arsenal of cumbersome, ...

On August 26, China test fired multiple ballistic missiles, which landed at a site near Hainan and the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. According to Chinese reports, Chinese forces launched one ...

The Missile War in Yemen is the first comprehensive review of missile and missile defense activity in the ongoing Yemen conflict.

Israel deploys a layered air and missile defense architecture built to counter a wide variety of air and missile threats emanating from state and non-state regional adversaries. This threat spectrum ...

The following database provides a chronology of North Korea missile launches and nuclear detonations, also reflected in the graphics above. These entries include full flight tests of ballistic and ...

This interactive feature is archived. It was published and last updated in January 2017. Among the concerns of the NATO alliance in the post-Crimea era is the increase in Russia’s anti-access area ...

On December 17, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov confirmed to local media that Russia’s 9K720 Iskander-M SRBM “has proved to be effective” in the Syrian war. He also confirmed the use of the ...

The Issue International missile defense cooperation has become increasingly important in order to contend with the proliferation of more advanced air and missile threats. Cooperation includes the sale ...

The Issue Developing advanced sensing capabilities is a priority for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to overcome the targeting challenge for both strike and air and missile defense. Terrestrial ...

On February 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the country’s development of the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile at his state of the nation address. President Putin said the missile will ...

On March 27, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) conducted a successful anti-satellite intercept test. Designated “Mission Shakti” (“Strength”), the test involved an ...

This is a good day for homeland missile defense, and a bad day for Kim Jong-un. Hit-to-kill missile defense has once again been validated, this time against a complex and challenging ICBM-class threat ...