AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the successful maritime demonstration of a Puma–Switchblade automated sensor-to-shooter (S2S) capability from a US Navy Coastal Riverine Craft for increased mission autonomy to counter threats. Continue reading
Category Archives: Weapons Systems
Lasers & Microwaves Defeat Multiple Drones in MFIX Event
Forty-five unmanned aerial vehicles and drones fell out of the sky during a U.S. Army exercise after Raytheon’s advanced high-power microwave and laser dune buggy engaged and destroyed them. These common threats were knocked down during a Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment at the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence. Continue reading
US Air Force Wants Air-to-Air Missiles on Reaper
MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 – Air Force photo by SrA. Damon Kasberg
The US Air Force (USAF) is looking to equip its General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9 Reaper with an air-to-air missile (AAM) capability for the first time. Continue reading
Stand Off Missile for the Joint Strike Fighter
SOM-J is an air-to-surface missile to be used against heavily defended, high-value anti-surface warfare and land targets. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Gets $150M Integrated High Energy Laser Weapon Systems US Navy Contract
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $150 million contract, with options worth up to $942.8 million, for the development, manufacture and delivery of two high power laser weapon systems, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-Unmanned Aerial System (counter-UAS) capabilities, by fiscal year 2020. Continue reading
MQ-9 Reaper Armed with 500-lb GPS-Guided Bombs
MQ-9 Reapers begin adding GBU-38’s to their arsenal. The GBU-38 can be employed successfully during adversed weather due to its GPS-guidance. Continue reading
Armed Stinger UAV at Singapore Airshow 2018
ST Kinetics showed its armed Stinger UAV, part of its advanced soldier system, at Singapore Airshow 2018. Far from being a conventional UCAV, this is essentially a double quadrotor UAV that mounts a 5.56mm Ultimax light machine gun. Continue reading
Orbital ATK Demonstrates Counter UAS Technologies
Orbital ATK recently participated in the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. The event allowed soldiers to use counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) technologies during a series of demonstrations to provide feedback on how these systems performed and could potentially help fill capability gaps for short range air defense. Continue reading