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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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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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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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A New Clean Room for Missile and Satellite Propulsion Components
Moog Inc. announced the groundbreaking on its new clean room in Niagara Falls, New York. This will support the growing demand Moog is seeing for innovative satellite and missile propulsion components and systems from space and defense customers. Read on to learn more.
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F-35 Proves Nuke Drop Performance in Stockpile Flight Testing
Sandia, in conjunction with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), conducted a series of recent stockpile flight tests at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, with support...
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USNORTHCOM's Counter-UAS Fly-Away Kit Achieves Operational Certification
An 11-person team from U.S. Northern Command deployed to Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota at the end of October to provide counter-small uncrewed aerial system...
Podcasts Robotics, Automation & Control
Autonomous Drones Harness Wind for ISR and Counter UAS
Rob Creighton, Windlift Founder & CEO, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast to explain how Windlift's autonomous tethered drone system leverages wind to power a wide variety of defense applications.
INSIDER Aerospace
A New AI-Piloted VTOL Fighter Jet for Contested Environments
Shield AI unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter jet, X-BAT, during an event held in Washington D.C. last week.
Podcasts Unmanned Systems
Autonomous Targeting Systems for a New Autonomous Ground Vehicle
Bryan Bockmon, CEO of AimLock, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast to discuss their new partnership with Overland AI and the future of autonomous targeting systems in modern warfare.
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
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...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
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 Defense
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.
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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.
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
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 Defense
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.
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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 Defense
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...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
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 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 AR/AI
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 Weapons Systems
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.
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