The United States Air Force has announced the success of the Rapid Dragon palletized cruise missile delivery system’s first live-fire test. A current inventory cruise missile with a live warhead… Continue reading "Rapid Dragon’s First Live Fire Test Successfully Destroys Test Target"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most interesting and important news. As we enter the second half of November we have covered a variety… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (15-19 November)"
The U.S. Air Force has announced that it has conducted the first-ever test of its Rapid Dragon palletized cruise missile deployment program that used a production long range cruise missile… Continue reading "Production Cruise Missile Separation Test Vehicle Used In Rapid Dragon Program First"
Welcome to another Weekend Briefing, where we round-up the week’s most important defense news and some of the stories that may have flown under the radar. This week at Overt… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (23-27 August)"
The United States Air Force has announced that it has successfully conducted two demonstrations during the first system-level flight tests of the Rapid Dragon program. The tests of the palletized… Continue reading "USAF Announces First System-Level Rapid Dragon Demonstrations"
The United States Air Force has named its program testing the deployment of palletized long range munitions from cargo aircraft “Rapid Dragon”. The new name for what was previously known… Continue reading "USAF Cargo Aircraft Palletized Munitions Program Now “Rapid Dragon”"