MBDA’s Mistral missile system embodies success in the arena of short-range air defense. The concept was born in 1974 and entered series production in 1989. With these evolutions, the final ...

The Gibka-S Very Short-Range Air Defense (VSHORAD) system, equipped with four Igla, Igla-S or Verba missiles, can successfully counter planes, helicopters, drones, cruise missiles and high ...

TASS/. Russia’s state hi-tech corporation Rostec has demonstrated the first serial-produced version of the latest Sosna short-range air defense missile system at the Army-2018 international ...

nLight CEO Scott told an investor conference call discussing the latest results that the company was making good progress on a number of fronts in the race to develop laser weapons, saying: “Another ...

The Estonian Center for Defense Investments (ECDI) signed a declaration in Warsaw on Friday with the defense ministries of Lithuania, Norway, and Poland, for the joint procurement of a short-range man ...

Germany will send two IRIS-T air defense systems to Ukraine by the end of the year, according to German Major General ...

The fully automated, short-range Avenger air defense system is the Army's premier shoot-on-the-move air defense weapon. It is a lightweight, highly mobile, easily transportable surface-to-air ...

In April 2018, an Israeli airstrike on the T-4 airbase in central Syria targeted and destroyed an Iranian Russian-built short-range Tor air defense system, killing seven Iranian soldiers.

Two retired generals say Israel's air defenses need more protection from low-flying drones, which it's struggled to counter ...