Weapons

BAE Systems on Aug.28 won a $1.74 billion contract vehicle for production and delivery of up to 55,000 full rate production lots 13 to 17 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System […]

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division is preparing to issue an opportunity for vendors to demonstrate prototype high speed weapons, with the goal of seeing a wide range of […]

The U.S. State Department has notified Congress of the department’s approval of a request by Nigeria to buy $346 million of munitions and technical support in a foreign military sale […]

Companies developing hypersonic weapons are collaborating to explore reducing their cost, a Leidos [LDOS] official said on Thursday. One of the arguments against hypersonic missiles has been their cost—at least […]

The fiscal 2025 reconciliation law includes $1.5 billion over the next four years for low-cost cruise missiles–$1 billion for DoD and another $500 million for “exportable” low-cost cruise missiles. Possible […]

One of the arguments against hypersonic missiles has been their cost—at least $15 million per weapon, but panelists at a Monday discussion at the Hudson Institute on modular weapons said […]

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Thursday debuted a pair of new flexible swarming “launched effects vehicle” munitions that have been tested on multiple platforms. The weapons, called the wolfpack family, are […]

Anduril Industries in May successfully completed flight tests of the munitions variant of its Barracuda-100 autonomous air vehicle under an Army testbed program aimed at proving out multiple ranges, missile […]

The U.S. Air Force plan to field a limited number of RTX [RTX] Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missiles (HACM) by 2028 has led to a stated concern by the House Armed […]

The key element of the modification program for the Boeing [BA] 20-foot, 30,000 pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is the Large Penetrator Smart Fuze (LPSF). L3Harris Technologies‘ [LHX] L3 […]