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Cummings fine-tunes Hellhound drone for Golden Dome mission

August 11, 2025
Cummings Aerospace unveiled a variant of its Hellhound drone designed to meet homeland defense missions at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, this week. The company is taking its S3 variant and beefing it up into a new S4 variant to take on air defense missions, particularly countering drone threats, that could fit within the framework of President Donald Trump’s…
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Ukraine-Russia peace talks under pressure. Who could face sanctions?

August 8, 2025
MILAN — Donald Trump’s push for a Ukraine-Russia peace deal to be reached by the end of this week is unrealistic, experts say, as substantive progress is improbable without a major shift on the battlefield. On July 28, the U.S. president announced that he was shortening the initial 50-day deadline previously granted to Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine to “10 or 12…
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Could Golden Dome funding get next-gen interceptor back up to speed?

August 7, 2025
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Lockheed Martin, the developer of the Next Generation Interceptor designed to protect the homeland from intercontinental ballistic missile threats, is looking for ways to accelerate the program amid a delay, according to Sarah Reeves, company vice president of NGI. NGI is currently facing a year-and-a-half schedule slip, but a likely funding boost from President Trump’s…
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Army plans to grow Patriot battalions, plus one for Guam

August 6, 2025
The Army is planning to grow its operational Patriot air-and-missile defense force from 15 to 18 battalions, plus a composite battalion which includes Patriot capability in Guam, an Army spokesperson told Defense News in a statement. In 2023 the service announced a plan to add a 16th battalion, but it will now bolster a force stretched thin with two additional battalions. Vice Chief of Staff Gen.
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