Missile Defense & Weapons

A Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) has completed a 400-km flight demonstration, the longest yet by the ground-launched tactical missile

Eight Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35Is joined a strike package of 80 Israeli fighters in strikes on hundreds of sites in Gaza on May 11.

A crew at the 53rd Wing on Eglin AFB, Florida, loaded five of the 2,150-lb. cruise missiles on an F-15E, with a JASSM on each wing and aft conformal fuel tank station, as well as another on the belly hard point.

The Northrop Grumman Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile - Extended Range is on track to stage the first live fire test from a Boeing F/A-18E/F this spring.

The cause of the ground abort minutes or hours before the planned launch on May 5 remains under investigation.

The U.S. Navy has received approval for its next-generation air combat training system to enter limited production.

The U.S. Navy has opened the market research phase for a highly advanced anti-ship cruise missile.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Northrop Grumman hit a proverbial home run with its first-quarter 2021, reporting outsized revenue and earnings, as well as providing a slightly higher forecast for the whole year.

Stratolaunch’s six-engine Roc carrier aircraft returned to the air on April 29, just more than two years after making its flight debut in 2019, with a 3-hr., 14-min. test sortie from the company’s Mojave Air & Space Port facility in California.

The U.S. Air Force has started canvassing industry for interest in reactivating the external hardpoints on the B-1B fleet, with integration of non-nuclear hypersonic missiles likely to follow.

The Northern Ireland-based business of Spirit AeroSystems has added research, development and consultancy firm Intrepid Minds Robotics to its team developing the UK’s Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft demonstrator.

Weapons and sensors for 12 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9B Sky Guardians for a previously announced potential sale to Australia have been confirmed by a required U.S. government agency notification.

Turkey’s Roketsan has developed a new glide bomb to be used with the Baykar Makina’s Akinci twin-engine medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system.

A civilian photographer captured the photo in 2018 as the F/A-18F with the markings of VX-31 air test and evaluation squadron landed at Point Mugu, California.

Germany has begun upgrading its Eurofighters to allow the carriage of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile.

The U.S. Army is scheduled to conduct the fourth Precision Strike Missile test in mid-May at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

All three C-UAS demonstrated at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, may be considered for a Low Collateral Effects Interceptors (LCEI) program, which the US Air Force will launch later this year.

Hunt for hypersonic interceptor; Smith wants May 10 budget request; Air Force’s SIAW shift, and Austin scraps European drawdown.

An intense private feud erupted publicly over Air Force objections to Army plans to encroach on long-range strike mission.

Turkey’s indigenous within-visual-range air-to-air missile, Bozdogan/Merlin has scored its first aerial kill in flight trials.

Israel Aerospace Industries and Thales team to offer IAI’s Gabriel V anti-ship missile to meet a UK need for an interim anti-ship weapon.

A Broad Area Announcement (BAA) entitled “Enhanced Hypersonic Defense,” which the MDA released on April 12, requests companies to submit white papers by May 12 for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program.

The move announced in a March 17 acquisition notice scratches the original plan to award the contract without a competition to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.

A top U.S. Marine Corps general said he hadn't seen sharp criticisms of land-based missiles in the Pacific by a U.S. Air Force counterpart, but explained the rationale for the concept.