Weapons

Jill Hruby, outgoing administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, told the next administration ‘don’t lose the momentum’ in a tell-all on the state of the nuclear enterprise Thursday. “I […]

Laser and high-powered microwave systems are key to increasing magazine depth aboard ships to defend themselves and other assets, but the technologies are not progressing as fast as needed and […]

The U.S. Navy is examining the fielding of relatively inexpensive weapons, including projectiles and directed energy, to protect service ships at distance against missiles and drones–both of which have been […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Monday that a manned Next Generation Air Dominance fighter would require more than $20 billion extra in research and development (R&D), as […]

Transferring high end missiles and munitions to Israel and Ukraine amid their respective conflicts is depleting some of the weapons needed for potential hostilities with China, Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander […]

As the Navy ramps up the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) All Up Round (AUR) development program, it has started to conduct market research for sources to support this congressionally-mandated […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has delivered to the U.S. Air Force a Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) test missile “to verify that the launch aircraft can safely […]

Testing the first hypersonic missiles on the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyer is running at least two years behind plan for 2025, pushed back to 2027, a Navy official said Thursday. […]

The Navy awarded Norway’s Kongsberg a $961 million multiyear contract for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), also known as the Over the Horizon-Weapons System encanistered missiles. NSMs are currently deployed […]

The U.S. Air Force’s inventory of high-end munitions is sufficient, as the service moves to field lower-cost, $100,000 models in the coming years to bolster capacity to deter China and […]