Weapons

L3Harris Technologies’ [LHX] Aerojet Rocketdyne company is acquiring new equipment, designing new facilities, and moving some manufacturing under a year-old Defense Department contract to increase production capacity for solid rocket […]

The U.S. Air Force plans flight tests of the RTX [RTX] air-breathing Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) in fiscal 2025, as the service mulls a legacy for the development of […]

Startup X-Bow Systems on Monday said the Large Solid Rocket Motor (LRSM) it is developing to become a second source supplier for two Army and Navy hypersonic weapons programs has […]

The Navy in the past few months has awarded six contracts to four companies to design, build, and test rocket motors and related technology for the Standard Missile (SM)-6 as […]

Rocket motor and launch vehicle startup Evolution Space on Monday said it successfully conducted a full-scale statie fire of a solid rocket motor (SRM) designed to meet current tactical applications. […]

Flight testing of F-35 fighters with new data upgrades is underway and aircraft with the technology refresh are expected to be delivered beginning in the third quarter, and overall this […]

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Monday said it successfully hot-fire tested the Zeus 2 large solid rocket motor (SRM) that it developed commercially with Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] in […]

Propulsion technology startup Ursa Major on Monday said it has received an engineering contract from the Navy to develop and test a new design for the legacy Mk 104 solid […]

The Navy’s $2.2 billion fiscal year 2025 unfunded priorities list is topped with funding for the submarine industrial base, repair damage to Guam and various munitions. The Pentagon is required […]

U.S. Central Command said on March 5 that Special Operations Task Group-Central (SOTG-C) and Air Forces Central airmen recently had hands-on training for the rapid installation and delivery of palletized […]