Weapons

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 […]

BAE Systems on Friday said it signed a contract with the Netherlands to provide eight new Bofors 40 Mk4 40mm naval guns for the Royal Netherlands and Belgian Navies. The […]

The State Department on Friday approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of hundreds of RTX [RTX] Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B tactical missiles and related equipment for Japan. […]