The Switchblade 600 is designed to fly about 40 km in 20 min., then loiter in the target area for another 20 min.

The Army ordered the Iron Dome systems in August 2019 to plug a gap in defenses against cruise missiles while it continues to shop for a permanent solution.

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force has conducted a flight test of the MQ-9A Reaper carrying eight live AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, which doubles the capacity that the unmanned aircraft was originally designed to hold.

The Czech Republic has selected Rafael’s Spyder air defense system to meet the country’s short-medium range ground-based air defense requirement. 

Raytheon will start building the first pieces of a Microwave Technology Testbed as a new defense against hypersonic missiles under a $9.79 million…

The U.S. Army is preparing for staff talks with the U.S. Air Force next week that will include explaining the results of Project Convergence, a six-week experiment testing key modernization technologies and weapon systems.

The Boeing-led team will compete for the Next Generation Interceptor engineering and manufacturing development contract against Lockheed Martin and a Northrop Grumman/Raytheon team. 

One of the few big storylines on the military aviation beat to emerge this year with no links at all to the COVID-19 pandemic is the U.S. Air Force’s…