Weapons

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory said that its directed energy directorate at Kirtland AFB, N.M., used the high-power microwave Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR) system to shoot down drones […]

The U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) in Tullahoma, Tenn., wants additive manufacturing to aid the building of parts for DoD hypersonic test facilities, including Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on May 8 that the U.S. Navy conducted a recent test of the company’s AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER)–the “first firing overland against […]

The Pentagon’s office of industrial base policy has awarded contracts to three companies to strengthen the hypersonic and strategic systems’ supply chain in the United States. On Apr. 28, DoD […]

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas–The Lockheed Martin [LMT] plant in Camden, Ark. has a goal of producing 52 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) per day, as the U.S. Army ramps up […]

FORT WORTH, Texas–The Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter is soon to have a company-designed weapons rack–“Sidekick”–that will allow the internal carriage of six Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] AIM-120 advanced medium range […]

Gross Issue Effectiveness (GIE) and Supply Response Time (SRT) for the on-time delivery of required spare parts are to be  key features of a Performance-Based Logistics contract that the F-35 […]

The U.S. Navy is studying the conflict utility of having Boeing [BA] P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft equipped with the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range […]

The Energetics Technology Center (ETC) in Indian Head, Md., is examining which of a half dozen munitions, among them the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) and […]

Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles struck two Iranian-backed Syrian militia targets with 20 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs) in retaliation for recent assaults against U.S. personnel, including an […]