Weapons

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy’s top officer said he is not ready “to go all-in yet” on laser weapons without a more sure output while the Navy’s next-generation fighter […]

Mach Industries in January successfully flight-tested its Viper vertical takeoff cruise missile under an Army contract for Strategic Strike, showcasing the startup’s speed in developing the man-portable long-range weapon that […]

Locating and jamming Russian and Chinese mobile surface-to-air missile radars in a defense of the Baltic states and Taiwan could become easier with allied use of 4G and 5G cellular […]

The State Department approved a potential $84 million Foreign Military Sale of hundreds of GBU-39B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB-1) to Romania. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the […]

The Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) is still dealing with reliability problems, now focused on software issues, according to the latest report from the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester. While the […]

New York-based Moog, Inc. [MOG.A] is predicting a rise in its space and defense business this year. Moog builds flight actuators, switches, and controls for a number of DoD platforms, […]

Castelion, a two-year-old startup focused on rapidly developing and mass-producing hypersonic weapons, has raised $100 million in new capital to increase its workforce and production capabilities, and speed testing of […]

Israel’s success last fall in knocking out Iranian air defenses, in large part with the Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built F-35 fighter, showcases why the fifth-generation aircraft is necessary amid concerns that […]

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 […]