The U.S. Navy is adding 16 refurbished Harpoon Block IC missiles to its inventory to expand the anti-ship missile capacity of its Los Angeles-class submarine fleet.
General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman won contracts to pursue preliminary design work for DARPA’s LongShot program to develop an air-launched UAV that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons, DARPA announced Feb. 8.
An independent report has concluded that neither Ukrainian nor Russian aviation regulators were aware of any potential threats to civil airspace in the lead up to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.
A “special notice” published on Feb. 2 by the Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions Project Office defines a plan to stage of shoot-off of candidate designs in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
Israel’s Rafael has developed a turbojet-powered derivative of its Spice 250 glide bomb that allows the weapon to strike targets out to ranges of at least 150 km.
The Tel Aviv-based manufacturer sold a naval version of the electro-optical guided missile to one Asian customer and a ground-launched version of the HAROP to another Asian customer.
A group of private equity investors and aerospace managers have teamed to create Los Angeles-area Karman Missile & Space Systems, which they bill as one of the largest independently owned pure-play suppliers for the space, missile, interceptor and hypersonic markets.
Northrop Grumman is giving up a legacy contract that supports testing of cluster bomb components after a decision to apply sustainability precepts to the work, leaders of the large defense prime said Jan. 28.
The requests for enhanced white papers show the U.S. Army’s plans for the next iteration of a portfolio of Long Range Precision Fires programs, which includes the Precision Strike Missile and the Mid-Range Missile Capability.
A team headed by Spirit Aerosystems will lead the development and demonstration of a low-cost unmanned combat aircraft that could go on to operate as a loyal wingman for the UK’s Typhoon, F-35, and later Tempest manned fighters.
The U.S. Army plans to roll out a series of PRSM upgrades in the years ahead. But the baseline missile program calls for delivering a new weapon with a range up to 499 km.
MBDA has conducted demonstration firings of its MMP anti-tank missile guided to a target beyond visual line-of sight with help from a multi-copter drone.
One reason why Japan is pursuing development of an improved, extended-range Type 12 ground-launched, anti-ship cruise missile is to push back against U.S. plans to host its intermediate-range missiles on Japanese soil, a Japanese government official told the Mainichi newspaper.
A new study published by two scientists—Cameron Tracy, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and David Wright, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—seeks to debunk claims that hypersonic weapons are invincible.
