In a historic test, General Atomics launched and controlled multiple Altius-600 drones from onboard an MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER). To launch a drone from another drone is an… Continue reading "General Atomics Succeed in Using Gray Eagle As A Drone Mothership"
For a whopping $2.3 billion Saudi Arabia has inked the deal to purchase seven AN/TPY-2 radars from Raytheon for their THAAD ballistic missile defense system. These radars will be the… Continue reading "Saudi Arabia Signs $2.3 Billion Contract for THAAD Radar"
On 25th June under orders of recently-elected Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, members of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service raided a facility belonging to Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) who are suspected of… Continue reading "Kata’ib Hezbollah Members Arrested by Iraqi Counter-Terror Forces"
Early this week the anticipated announcement was made that the USAF would begin looking for solutions to replace the MQ-9 Reaper. The hope is for a delivered vehicle by 2030… Continue reading "MQ-Next: The Reaper’s Struggle for Survival"
On 3 June the US Army tested a new multi-mode seeker for the in-development Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). This seeker adds a revolutionary capability to Army long-range fires allowing them… Continue reading "US Army Tests Multi-mode Seeker for PrSM Used to Hunt Enemy Radars"
AARGM-ER, the US Navy’s newest anti-radiation missile, has been flown onboard a combat aircraft for the first time. The captive flight test was conducted on 1 June, by Naval Air… Continue reading "New AARGM-ER Radar-Killing Missile Flown Aboard Super Hornet for the First Time"
Mike White, the Pentagon’s Assistant Director for Hypersonics has made comments confirming that fears of a communication blackout during hypersonic flight are unfounded. He stated that during tests ground stations… Continue reading "US DoD Confirms That Hypersonics Able to Use Datalinks"
Earlier this year it was confirmed that the US Army would be purchasing Spike Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) to augment the Apache fleet’s ability to defeat hostile air defense systems by outranging… Continue reading "Spike NLOS for America and the Failure of JAGM"
Raytheon announced that it has been contracted by the US Army to begin the development of a solid fuel ramjet boosted artillery round known as XM1155 Extended Range Artillery Projectile… Continue reading "Raytheon to Collaborate with Dutch to Produce Ramjet Boosted Artillery"
The US Army Future Vertical Lift team have made the decision to have Sikorsky’s Raider X and Bell’s 360 Invictus compete head to head in a FARA prototype fly-off in… Continue reading "Sikorsky and Bell Selected to Compete in the FARA Fly-Off"