On May 6, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll announced that the U.S. Army is developing a new interceptor missile with an estimated cost of at least $250,000. The initiative aims to test creating interceptors from scratch to secure intellectual property before transitioning into contracted manufacturing.
The figure represents a fraction of the multimillion-dollar Patriot interceptors deployed in recent operations against Iran.
Washington has also terminated the active phase of Operation Epic Fury following its inability to achieve regime change and shortages of missiles.
Additionally, exercises conducted in the Philippines with the new Typhon mobile launcher demonstrated that Tomahawk missiles successfully reached targets over 600 kilometers—a move that escalated tensions with China.
