Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Sep 30, 2020
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.
Sep 28, 2020
The Czech Republic has selected Rafael’s Spyder air defense system to meet the country’s short-medium range ground-based air defense requirement.
Sep 25, 2020
Raytheon will start building the first pieces of a Microwave Technology Testbed as a new defense against hypersonic missiles under a $9.79 million…
Sep 25, 2020
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.
Sep 24, 2020
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.
Sep 21, 2020
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…
Sep 18, 2020
Romania has accepted the first of seven planned Raytheon Patriot ground-based air defense systems.
Sep 14, 2020
The three-phase demonstration aims to prove the C-17 can be weaponized if called upon, but top U.S. Air Force leaders have not yet decided on a specific role for the strategic airlifter.