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AUSA 2025: The Army's New Anti-Vehicle Terrain Shaping Munition is Ready for Deployment
Textron Systems recently delivered the first XM204 Top Attack Munition to the U.S. Army in support of its European operations. XM204 is an anti-vehicle...
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Army Conducts First Switchblade 600 Loitering Munition Live-Fire Exercise
As part of Pegasus Charge, 1st Cavalry Division's effort in support of the Army's "Transforming in Contact" initiative to modernize armored formations, soldiers assigned...
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Scaling Precision: Designing and Manufacturing the Army's Next-Generation Strike Missile
As the U.S. Army transitions into a new era of modernization, its Precision Strike Missile program is a powerful example of how innovation at scale can...
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
TRML-4D Radar for Ukrainian Air Defense
Hensoldt recently received a major order to supply radars to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense. As part of a comprehensive order package worth more than 340 million euros, TRML-4D high-performance radars and SPEXER 2000 3D MkIII shortrange radars will be delivered. Read on to learn more.
INSIDER Weapons Systems
How the Air Force's B-21 Raider is Advancing Across Test and Production
The U.S. Air Force announced the arrival of the second B-21 Raider flight test aircraft last week to Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California.
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Precision Strike Missile Increment 1 Achieves Milestone C Approval
The U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile Increment 1 program achieved Milestone C approval, signaling the program’s transition into the Production and Deployment phase. Read on to learn more.
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Anduril Becomes Third US Supplier of Solid Rocket Motors
If the battlefield in Ukraine is any indication, future wars will be fought in part through large expenditures of missiles over a sustained period of time. But for missile salvos to...
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
A400M DIRCM Upgrades
Airbus has been awarded a contract from the German procurement agency Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr (BAAINBw) to equip 23 Luftwaffe A400Ms with DIRCM protection systems. Read on to learn more.
INSIDER Aerospace
Next Generation Fuselage Structures for Launched Effects
Continuous Composites (CCI) has been awarded a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project in collaboration with Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, to develop...
INSIDER Weapons Systems
Air Force Tests Low Cost, Lighter Variant of QUICKSINK Anti-Ship Weapon
In a demonstration of enhanced maritime lethality, the Air Force tested a new, more versatile variant of the QUICKSINK maritime weapon, increasing aircraft lethality by...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
How the Air Force Leverages Simulation to Explore Lethality Before it's Built
Before a new weapon system is ever built, flown or fired, it begins in a simulated environment digitally constructed, dynamically tested and refined in real time....
INSIDER Weapons Systems
Navy Proves Cold-Gas Approach in Hypersonic Launch Test
The U.S. Navy's Strategic Systems Programs is continuing on the path toward the nation's first sea-based hypersonic fielding with a successful end-to-end flight test of a conventional...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
New PhantomStrike Radar Completes First Flight Test
Raytheon has successfully completed the first flight test of its PhantomStrike radar on its Multi-Program Testbed aircraft in Ontario, California. PhantomStrike successfully tracked...
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Lasers Destroy Drones as Additive Manufacturing Builds Them
In February, the Joint Interagency Field Experimentation team at the Naval Postgraduate School executed another highly collaborative week of rapid prototyping and defense demonstrations with dozens of emerging technology companies. Read on to learn more about it.
Articles Weapons Systems
AI Automates Drone Defense With High Energy Lasers
To counter the rapidly mounting threats posed by the proliferation of inexpensive uncrewed autonomous systems, or drones, Naval Postgraduate School researchers and collaborators are applying AI to automate critical parts of the tracking system used by laser weapon systems. Read on to learn more about it.
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
The Marines New Installation Counter UAS System
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded a 10-year, $642 million program of record to Anduril Industries to develop and sustain their new Installation-Counter small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (I-CsUAS) technology. I-CsUAS is a platform powered by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to protect Marine Corps installations globally by detecting, identifying, tracking and defeating small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
BlueHalo Completes Test of Next Generation C-UAS Missile
BlueHalo, the company transforming the future of global defense with actively deployed and operationally proven Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System (C-UAS) solutions, announced the successful live fire demonstration of its Next-Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM) – Freedom Eagle-1 (FE-1), addressing the critical need for munitions industrial base expansion to meet the rapidly evolving advanced aerial threats. Read on to learn more.
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The Power Behind the Growth in Intelligent Munitions
This article describes the technologies enabling the evolution of intelligent munitions and focuses on the importance of stable power supplies. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs Aerospace
F/A-18 Infrared Search and Rescue System
The U.S. Navy declared initial operational capability for the F/A-18 E/F Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Block II system in November 2024, providing the fleet with an enhanced capability to search, detect and track airborne targets at long range. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
6.8 MM Ammunition Production Facility
The U.S. Army’s Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition, along with the Joint Munitions Command, officially broke ground on a new 6.8 mm ammunition production facility in support of the Next Generation Squad Weapon Program at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri. Read on to learn more about the 6.8 mm family of ammunition, set to be produced at the new facility.
Application Briefs Defense
Eurofighter Common Radar System Upgrade
The Eurofighter Common Radar System Mark 1 project is the next-generation Eurofighter radar that is to be fielded by the air forces of Germany and Spain. This E-Scan radar will enhance the capabilities of the Eurofighter — which Airbus produces for the German and Spanish air forces — in air-to-air and air-to-ground operations and also equip it with electronic warfare capabilities. Read on to learn more.
Articles Weapons Systems
British Army Completes First Test of Drone Killing Radio Frequency Weapon
British soldiers have successfully trialed for the first time a game-changing weapon that can take down a swarm of drones using radio waves for less than the cost of a pack of mince pies. The Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW) development system can detect, track and engage a range of threats across land, air and sea. Read on to learn more about it.
INSIDER Weapons Systems
First F-15Es Equipped With EPAWSS Ready for Flight
Two F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft equipped with the Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) arrived at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, Jan. 16, 2025, marking the...
INSIDER Weapons Systems
DoD Signs New Strategy for Countering Unmanned Systems
The Department of Defense announced that Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has signed a new, classified strategy for countering the effects of unmanned systems, also called...
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Autonomous Air Defense Production
Anduril Industries has been awarded a $249,978,466 contract to deliver advanced air defense capabilities across services for the Department of Defense (DoD). This contract will deliver more than 500 Roadrunner-Ms and additional Pulsar electronic warfare capabilities, addressing the growing threat of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) attacks against U.S. forces. Read on to learn more.
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Patriot Missile Hits Target in Test of Upgraded ICBS Radar
Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability – 3 (PAC-3) missile successfully integrated with Raytheon’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) radar to defeat an...
Podcasts Weapons Systems
Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination: The Army's Future Vision for Fused AI
U.S. Army leadership discusses how the Army wants to use AI and ML for processing, exploitation, and dissemination.
Podcasts AR/AI
Why the Air Force Is Using the Virtualitics AI Approach to Weapon Sustainment
Michael Amori, CEO and co-founder of Virtualitics, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast to explain how the Air Force is using Integrated Readiness Optimization for weapons sustainment.
INSIDER Defense
Army Seeks to Expand 3D Printing to the Tactical Edge
During AUSA 2024, leadership from several Army units that focus on material, manufacturing and sustainment discussed how the Army is expanding its use of 3D printing and advanced...
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