Missile Defense & Weapons

How soon can the U.S. Defense Department pivot from offensive to defensive hypersonic weapons—and can it afford to?

The U.S. Army is comfortable with access to test ranges for its current hypersonic weapon program, but says the lack of infrastructure for the entire military will affect future programs beyond the Dark Eagle.

The U.S. Army is moving ahead with a full competition to replace its current Raytheon Stinger surface-to-air missiles, while refurbishing existing ones to avoid a potential shortage after sending current stocks to Ukraine.

Raytheon executives say the latest version of the 44-year-old, radar-guided, air-to-air missile program has set two new time-of-flight records in the past 15 months.

Typically considered an air-to-ground weapon, Poland will follow Ukraine's tactic of firing Brimstones from ground vehicles.

The U.S. State Department has cleared a potential sale of munitions to equip Kuwait’s new fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft.

Tracking capability is critical to intercepting hypersonic missiles.

The U.S. State Department has given the green light for the sale of 80 Lockheed Martin AGM-158B-2 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles - Extended Range to Australia under the foreign military sales program.

Original concepts for an “attritiable” Loyal Wingman are diverging in favor of a mix of greater and lesser advanced platforms.

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.

Seoul’s most complex aircraft project bolsters its drive toward independent weapons production and export.

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.

Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden explains the company's European strategy.

The MBDA-led team has undertaken the first firings of the directed-energy weapon.

Production and testing infrastructure will expand dramatically with a $2 billion investment in the latest Defense Department budget proposal.

Lockheed Martin’s rapid prototyping division defines new concept for collaboration between crewed and uncrewed combat aircraft.

The upper stage of the Lockheed Martin missile was not tested during the first flight, and only the Northrop Grumman-supplied, first-stage motor was ignited.

The flight test met all primary and secondary objectives, the U.S. Air Force said, without elaborating.

Hunting hypersonic production capacity; Boeing’s Chinook exports; Turkey tests air-to-air missile; and Northrop’s Rooster rideshare.