Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis

Mar 02, 2020
U.S. defense officials are considering a “broad set” of scramjet-powered, hypersonic cruise missiles as the U.S. Air Force focuses in the near term on preparing a follow-on program to DARPA's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept. 
Feb 28, 2020
Britain is to develop a new nuclear warhead with the U.S. to arm its submarine-based deterrent.
Feb 28, 2020
The U.S. Air Force terminated one of two hypersonic missile prototypes a year before a planned decision point to divert funding for other priorities and preserve funding for the more advanced high-speed missile, the top acquisition official said Feb. 28.
Feb 28, 2020
Small Diameter Bombs and Miniature Air-Launched Decoys will demonstrate a new semi-autonomous weapon technology later this year, an Air Force Research Laboratory official says.
Feb 27, 2020
The AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) is the U.S. military’s most technologically ambitious hypersonic weapon.
Feb 27, 2020
Boeing has dusted off a 10-year-old advanced missile concept to show off “tactically relevant” technologies for the Air Warfare Symposium here this week.
Feb 27, 2020
U.S. Navy Fire Scouts need reliability boost; India buys U.S. helos; Norway sends F-35s to Iceland; Tunisia to buy light attack aircraft.
Feb 26, 2020
A new U.S. military assessment adds a hypersonic glide vehicle to China’s nuclear weapons portfolio.