Missile Defense & Weapons

New airlifters, helicopters are bolstering German defense capabilities, but plans for fighters and ISR platforms have yet to gather pace.

The U.S. Air Force has taken the first step in an acquisition process that could lead to an air-launched hypersonic conventional cruise missile.

The Trump administration has unveiled significant new export restrictions on China that limit U.S. aircraft systems, sensors and electronics, essentially trying to keep away products that may go to any end user affiliated with the Chinese military.

Norway and U.S. close cooperation on missiles and propulsion is expanding into the near-hypersonic regime.

U.S. Air Force moves forward on LRSO and GBSD without a competitive bidding process.

MDA will accept responses from May 1 through July 31, according to a notice about the request for proposals. Two prime contracts are expected by late fall or early winter.

How Lockheed exceeds expectations; Italians may buy AW169; U.S. Air Force fuel-saving solution; Russia studies light fighter.

Lockheed Martin completed the preliminary design of its candidate for the Long Range Standoff cruise missile six months before the U.S. Air Force’s decision to award the $4.5 billion program to rival Raytheon Technologies, the service said on April 20.

Norway and the U.S. will cooperate on advanced ramjet technologies for future missile developments.

The U.S. Air Force has selected Raytheon Technologies to develop the Long Range Stand-off cruise missile and surprisingly ended a competition with Lockheed Martin for the $4.54 billion program nearly two years early.

The Japanese defense ministry has reported a 20% improvement in detection range with a fused sensor system for use against stealth aircraft and ballistic and cruise missiles.

The U.S. Air Force may award an $85 billion contract to Northrop Grumman early to develop the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent missile to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.

The U.S. Army plans to beef up legacy aviation platforms for future multidomain fight.

A 20 mm cannon, 360-deg. visibility in brownout conditions and a sensor-fused cockpit are among the items on the U.S. Army’s wish list for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has started a new phase of integration and electromagnetic interference testing on a $3 billion electronic warfare upgrade for the F-15E and F-15EX fleets, the service announced in an April 14 news release.

Complex CHITA model allows engineers to test loads on different aerodynamic elements of high-speed rotorcraft configurations.

A TASS report offers the first timeline for fielding of the new weapon designed to strike maritime and land targets at up to Mach 9.

Gen. Timothy Ray, the head of Global Strike command, favors a concept not based on a modification to an existing aircraft.

Talon vehicle emerges as core of updated Stratolaunch hypersonic test fleet plan along with Black Ice spaceplane concept.

The UK confirms a new hypersonic weapon project with the U.S. as the UK Defense Ministry moves to leverage decades of expertise.

The recently unveiled, though notional, Quartet Interceptor provides clues as to how some missile-defense architectures may evolve.

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.”