Contractors vying to develop the future system that would defend the U.S. against intercontinental ballistic missiles say they can meet the aggressive schedule being pushed by military leaders.
Lockheed Martin has confirmed a secret customer has ordered the Speed Racer flight vehicle that the Skunk Works unveiled a year ago as a technology demonstrator.
The U.S. Army’s next installment of Project Convergence—an experiment that seeks to link disparate military platforms—will involve all three services and focus on maximizing the use of data and sharing it across the joint force, according to the deputy commander of Army Futures Command.
The Japanese Defense Ministry has reported to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that the F-15J upgrade program will proceed without the Lockheed Martin AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), according to state broadcaster NHK.
The recoverable exercise-variant torpedo, which lacks a warhead or propulsion system, was released by the aircraft near the UK’s main Poseidon operating base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland.
The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 44 Raytheon RIM-116C Rolling Airframe Missiles Block 2 to Japan. The missiles are destined for Japan Maritime Self Defense Force ships.
U.S. Air Force officials will not know how the latest test failure of a hypersonic missile prototype will impact the schedule until an ongoing root cause investigation is completed, Brig. Gen. Heath Collins said on Aug. 4.
An extended-range version of a U.S. Navy anti-radiation missile completed a successful first air-launched, live-fire test on July 19 over the Point Mugu Missile Range off the California coast, the Navy said on Aug. 3.
The German Air Force is undertaking operational testing of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile as it prepares to field the weapon on the Eurofighter before year’s end.
The single-stage booster separated from the Boeing B-52 on the second test but failed to ignite over the Point Mugu Sea Range off the California coast.
An exchange during a think-tank event in Washington on July 29 may offer an explanation for the absence of a promised U.S. Air Force hypersonic flight test in July.
The U.S. Air Force has retired the first Kratos XQ-58A to become a new exhibit at the National Museum of the Air Force after the pioneering unmanned aircraft system logged a total of four flight hours on three flights in 2019.
Lawmakers will consider draft legislation that would give the Pentagon a way to allow the Missile Defense Agency to develop laser technology to counter ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
France and the UK will continue to collaborate on research and development for future missile technology through a renewed agreement with missile manufacturer MBDA.
Korean Air and Seoul National University have been commissioned by the Republic of Korea Air Force to explore using the Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft for an air launch system, similar to Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne.
