TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region.

The Pentagon has claimed that Chinese missile forces are operating a new type of anti-ship ballistic missiles that are capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States, according to the annual report on Beijing’s military power.

Western militaries are looking at interceptor drones — proven in combat in Ukraine — as an ideal low-cost air defense.

The SDA, part of the US Space Force, launches new generations of its systems roughly every two years. Tranche 1 was built by Northrop Grumman and L3Harris, while contracts for 54 Tranche 2 satellites were awarded to L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space in January 2024.

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / Trust Consulting Services, a rapidly growing professional services and technology firm, today announced that it has been selected as one of the awardees on the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) SHIELD Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract,

All Points Logistics, LLC has been selected to participate in the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) newly established SHIELD program.

Recent US weapons packages to Taiwan have largely been asymmetric capabilities, but Taiwan needs more advanced systems as well, an official said.

The CSIS Missile Defense Project is pleased to roll out its new brief, The Depleting Missile Defense Interceptor Inventory.

The Long Range Discrimination Radar is designed to search, track and discriminate among multiple threats simultaneously.

This time of year, Space and Missile Defense Command, or SMDC, takes on a very special holiday mission. The joint Air Defense Operations Center takes on a different name as Christmas approaches. It becomes a Santa tracking center.

RTX's Raytheon has secured a $1.7 billion contract to supply Spain with four Patriot air and missile defense systems. The aerospace and defense company said Tuesday that under the terms of the foreign military sales contract, Raytheon will also provide radars, launchers, command and control stations, and training equipment.