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Weapons Systems

Keeping Pace with Changes in Defense Technology: Why Embedded Systems Must Deliver Agility, Resilience, and Endurance

Embedded systems are the backbone of communications, autonomy, logistics, and command, some of the Army’s most crucial areas. When designed effectively, they embody three essential qualities — agility, resilience, and endurance — that allow the Army and its partners to adapt as needed, withstand disruption, and sustain performance across decades of service. Read on to learn more.

Application Briefs

Defense

C-UAS Tactical Vehicle Testing

American Rheinmetall recently conducted a live-fire demonstration of its Ultra-Short Range Air Defense counter-uncrewed aerial system system integrated onto a tactical vehicle during testing at the Big Sandy Range in Arizona. Read on to learn more.

Application Briefs

Weapons Systems

Third-Generation Modular Directed Energy Weapon System

AeroVironment announced the release of LOCUST® X3, the third generation of AV’s high-energy laser weapon system that delivers precise, speed-of-light engagement for rapid defeat of uncrewed aerial threats. Read on to learn more.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Stratasys Selected for DoW Program to Qualify 3D-Printed Parts for Military Platforms

Stratasys Ltd. announced that its parts-on-demand business, Stratasys Direct™, has been selected to take part in the U.S. Department of War’s (DoW)...

Application Briefs

Weapons Systems

Apache’s New 30mm Proximity Ammunition

The Apache Attack Helicopter AH-64 has reached a new milestone in battlefield capability with the successful live fire test of the 30x113mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive (APEX) ammunition at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. Read on to learn more.

Application Briefs

Aerospace

Navy Declares IOC for Small Diameter Bomb

The U.S. Navy recently declared initial operational capability for the Small Diameter Bomb II on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, marking a significant advancement in the fleet’s precision-strike technology. Read on to learn more.

Application Briefs

Defense

The Navy’s New Advanced Lightweight Torpedo Program

Northrop Grumman will manufacture and deliver to the U.S. Navy a new advanced lightweight torpedo with a custom-designed warhead to increase its lethality. Northrop Grumman will draw upon decades of production expertise to deliver a weapon that fires from multiple naval platforms. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

Central Command Claims Strikes on 5,000 Targets in Operation Epic Fury

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) claims to have struck more than 5,000 targets during the first 10 days of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing war between the U.S.,...

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Weapons Systems

Navy F/A-18 Clears Initial Operational Capability for Stormbreaker Munition

The U.S. Navy recently declared initial operational capability for the Small Diameter Bomb II on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, marking a significant advancement in...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production

The Defense Department has announced new separate framework agreements with RTX’s Raytheon and Lockheed Martin aimed at rapidly scaling production of both...

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Weapons Systems

Smarter Pyrovalve Alternatives for Modern Missile and Munition Launcher Applications

If you’re exploring alternatives to your current pyrovalve, this article shares best practices to help guide your design: what to use instead, how to make the switch, and who can help you navigate the transition to ensure mission success.

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Weapons Systems

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...

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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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Manufacturing & Prototyping

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...

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Materials

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...

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Defense

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...

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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...

Application Briefs

Test & Measurement

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.

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.

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Weapons Systems

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

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.

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Weapons Systems

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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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Army Receives New Robot Combat Vehicle Prototypes

Three of the four defense industry teams selected to submit test vehicles for the U.S. Army's Robotic Combat Vehicle competition have completed deliveries of their prototypes since August,...

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Manned Systems

Barracuda: Anduril's New Software-Defined Autonomous Air Vehicles

Anduril is unveiling the Barracuda family of air-breathing, software-defined expendable Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs) that are optimized for affordable, hyper-scale...

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Defense

A New Low-Cost Air-Delivered Method for Defeating Surface Vessels

The Air Force proved a low-cost, air-delivered method for defeating surface vessels through a QUICKSINK demonstration in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico near Eglin Air Force...

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Data Acquisition

EA-37B Compass Call: The US Air Force's New Electronic Attack Aircraft

The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call on Aug. 23 for pilot training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

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Aerospace

US Army Needs to Improve How New Equipment is Fielded, Report Says

Since 2021, the U.S. Army has invested $46.5 billion into developing new weapons and fielding them faster. However, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds...

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Aerospace

Airbus Starts Flight Testing Upgraded French Army Helicopter

Airbus Helicopters has started the flight testing campaign for the prototype of the NH90 Standard 2. This standard is one of the latest NH90 configurations and is being developed...

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Test & Measurement

Air and Space Force Joint Team Completes Two Intercontinental Missile Tests

For the second time in a week, a joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen supported by Space Force Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III...