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Raytheon, Northrop, Lockheed to compete for hypersonic interceptor The GPI is being developed to knock down hypersonic missiles as they glide through the Earth's upper atmosphere at about 70 kilometers in altitude at speeds greater than Mach 5.

'Almost a melding' of US, UK, Aussie services coming: NSC's Kurt Campbell The context for President Biden's almost four-hour discussion Monday night with President Xi Jinpeng, Kurt Campbell said, is "that the United States is here to stay in the Indo-Pacific, and we're going to defend and support the operating system that has been so good for so many of us for many years."

Allies eyeing 'niche' space capabilities for warfighting with US "The key to success is frank and open discussion … tearing down those information sharing barriers, to be sure that we're truly interoperable," said Australian Air Commodore Nicholas Hogan.

US space industry 'tactically strong' but lacks long-term investment, study finds Despite investments of nearly $200 billion in commercial space since 2012, the US will lose what the authors paint as a vital race with China without more strategic vision, study sponsored by DoD's Defense Innovation Unit says.

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.

Surprise Russian ASAT test shows need to 'scale' space tracking, LeoLabs says While Russia's Defense Minister has claimed that debris from the ASAT test doesn't endanger the US and Russian crew on the ISS, the laws of physics beg to differ.

Could kinetic warfare go the way of Blockbuster?: US Air Force chief "Now we're somewhere stuck in the thinking that mass needs to be physical," Gen. CQ Brown told officials at the Dubai International Air Chiefs Conference on Nov. 13. "What if we did not have to produce sorties to achieve the same effect?"

Russian suspected ground-launched ASAT test scatters dangerous debris through LEO Consensus is forming that the most likely cause of the breakup was a strike by a A-235 / PL-19 Nudol ASAT system

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