Missile Defense & Weapons Analysis
Jun 16, 2020
Critical challenges remain to be overcome before air-breathing hypersonics can be applied to wider roles.
Jun 16, 2020
Flight testing will increasingly augment ground tests as U.S. hypersonic development transitions to operational vehicles.
Jun 15, 2020
The pace of hypersonic strike systems research is picking up internationally, galvanized by developments in Russia and China.
Jun 12, 2020
Russia buys interim fighter-bombers; GA-ASI to vie for MQ-9 replacement; KC-46 RVS testing coming; COVID-19 contractor relief bill?
Jun 12, 2020
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Apr 24, 2025
The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting a sharp rise in the Pentagon’s spending to maintain and modernize its nuclear arsenal.
Apr 24, 2025
Thales will look to 2026 defense budgets in Europe to get a better sense of the speed at which words transform into real money, CFO Pascal Bouchiat says.
Apr 22, 2025
Northrop Grumman lost an extra $477 million on early B-21 production, raising red ink on the first five annual lots of fixed-price contracts to over $2 billion.
Apr 22, 2025
Startup Beehive Industries is on track to start ground tests of its additively manufactured Frenzy engine next month, ahead of planned altitude tests with AFRL.
Apr 21, 2025
DARPA launched a program on April 17 to develop a new solid rocket motor with a burn surface area that can be altered after manufacturing.
Apr 17, 2025
The explosion that destroyed a Northrop Grumman solid rocket motor facility in Utah will not impact the company’s operations related to the Sentinel ICBM.
Apr 16, 2025
U.S. Army officials are beginning to grasp the challenges of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome initiative.
Apr 16, 2025
Italy’s ELT Group has unveiled a new modular electromagnetically silent anti-drone system.