Missile Defense & Weapons

A return to peer-to-peer competition has shifted priorities for the Army’s intelligence branch.

The U.S. Marine Corps proposes a massive force structure shift, the largest for the amphibious force in nearly two decades.

The U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program has focused on future rotorcraft, but GA-ASI pursues the MQ-1C role for Advanced UAS.

“Anybody with enough money can buy one.”

Hybrid-electric turbine-based combined-cycle concept under evaluation for U.S. Navy hypersonic applications and commercial developments.

Despite COVID-19 Britain is undertaking its biggest defense and foreign policy review since Cold War.

The March 19 test means the technology can transition into weapon systems development for the Army and Navy, the Pentagon says.

A new, low-cost turbojet designed to power future generations of swarming cruise missiles has completed flight testing, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on March 19.

A look at military requirements across the continent that may translate into orders over the next decade.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is planning for its Poland-based Aegis Ashore complex to be operational by 2022, four years later than originally planned.

The U.S. Marine Corps has opted to pursue an unmanned family-of-systems instead of having one large expensive air vehicle.

Lockheed wants BAE to design and manufacture a new generation of infrared seekers for THAAD.

Advanced ICBMs drive faster schedule, but can MDA deliver?

The terse reference in a written submission by Navy officials to the House Armed Services Committee on March 11 also likely offers the first proof that the SM-6 Block 1B remains in development.

Where weapons exports are going; Russian mercenaries hit U.S. UAS; Rocket Lab’s next NRO launch; and a Sea Venom Trial.

A series of requests for information to industry since last fall has generated proposals to accelerate the current, 10-year schedule.

Boeing has started delivering a new version of the Joint Direct Attack Munition tail kit with improved resistance to GPS jamming.

The Russian private military company used a “sophisticated Russian air defense system,” according to U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Stephen Townsend's testimony to the HASC.

“Soon we will release an inaugural doctrine” for the Space Force, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said March 10 in Washington.

MBDA says it has completed the first qualification firing trial of its Anglo-French Sea Venom/Anti-Navire Leger anti-ship missile.

A top F-35 program official shared an operational anecdote highlighting the aircraft’s latent capability against surface-to-air missile systems.

The design is for a considerable aircraft with a span of 16 m. But funding is needed.

Key helicopter programs to protect new UK carriers are behind schedule, so race is on to get them ready for the first deployment.

Triton production halted; Maxar sees geospatial services growth: FAA certifies training simulator and issues with nuclear modernization.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has shelved a proposal to use the F-35 to shoot down ballistic missiles, and paused another study looking at firing lasers at missiles from unmanned aircraft systems, the agency’s director said March 4.