The Power Units of Rolls-Royce and Safran are partnering to develop an engine for the subsonic cruise missile element of the Franco-British Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) program.

The two-phase Gambit program will start with an 18-month preliminary design phase and end with an 18-month ground test of a full-scale propulsion system in flight conditions.

The defense prime has held talks with British and European suppliers at Farnborough.

Raytheon has completed a second and last flight test of the DARPA-funded Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, flying Northrop Grumman’s scramjet-powered demonstrator more than 300 nm at 60,000 ft.

Demand from NATO members and Ukraine may outlast previous upticks.

The U.S. Air Force is working to shift internal Pentagon thinking on selling advanced air-to-air weapons to allies, saying the worry needs to be what is the risk if other nations do not have the missiles, not what is the risk if they do.

The firing sets up a campaign to extend the range of the air dominance missile “significantly.”

A promotional video shows a Lockheed Martin F-16 releasing the new Ice Breaker cruise missile.