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Gaza reels under Israeli strikes as violence enters second week
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
Air strikes sent dust clouds billowing into the skyline, as the Hamas militant group that controls the besieged and densely populated coastal strip threatened m...
US Navy Orders Additional Sea Skimming Target Vehicles from Northrop Grumman
May 17, 2021 (SPX)
This award represents the first of three options that can be exercised against the full-rate production contract awarded last year. The $55.4 million award brin...
Precision Strike Missile completes longest flight to date
May 13, 2021 (SPX)
The PrSM was fired from a HIMARS launcher and flew with expected precision to the target area where it once again demonstrated a highly accurate and effective w...
Air Force announces successful simulated hypersonic 'kill chain' test
May 07, 2021 (UPI)
The test was a "successful simulated hypersonic kill chain employment from sensor to shooter and back," during the Northern Edge 21 exercises in Alaska, an Air ...
Stratolaunch set for second hypersonic vehicle test
Apr 30, 2021 (Sputnik)
"We are airborne," the company said in a statement. "Currently performing various flight test maneuvers." The aircraft will complete its test flight at about 2 ...
Successful test of land-based Naval Strike Missile announced by Raytheon
Apr 29, 2021 (UPI)
The test demonstrated the system's ability to fire a Naval Strike Missile from a U.S. Marine Corps ground launcher and score a direct hit against a surface targ...
Ford carrier completes combat systems trials with missile-firing exercise
Apr 26, 2021 (UPI)
The five-phase trials began in February in the Atlantic Ocean, and followed an assortment of post-delivery tests and trials performed since the vessel's 2017 co...
Explosion at Israeli rocket factory a controlled test
Apr 22, 2021 (Sputnik)
Tomer has come forward maintaining that the images spread on Iranian media were misleading, and that the explosion was part of a deliberate and "controlled" tri...
Pentagon Will Attempt Hypersonic Missile Shootdown Using US Navy's SM-6 Missile
Apr 16, 2021 (Sputnik)
A senior Pentagon official told lawmakers on Wednesday that the Missile Defense Agency is preparing a test in which a Standard Missile (SM)-6 will attempt to sh...
SeaRAM missile launched from littoral combat ship USS Charleston in exercise
Apr 12, 2021 (UPI)
The launching of the SeaRAM missiles from the San Diego-based vessel was a part of exercises involving all of the ship's weaponry, and occurred on Thursday, the...
Air Force's hypersonic missile booster fails to launch from B-52 in first test
Apr 06, 2021 (UPI)
A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress took off over the Point Mugu Sea Range in California on Monday with the intention of firing the first booster test vehicle...
Lockheed Martin awarded $1B contract for Precision Fires All-Weather Rocket
Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)
The contract calls for the production of more than 9,000 GMLRS Unitary and Alternative-Warhead (AW) rockets, more than 2,000 Low-Cost Reduced-Range Practice Roc...
US Air Force Likely About to Test-Fire ARRW Hypersonic Missile for First Time - Report
Mar 30, 2021 (Sputnik)
A first-ever flight test of the US Air Force's AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Air Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic missile could come before the end of the week, a...
USS Gabrielle Giffords launches Naval Strike Missile in operational test
Mar 30, 2021 (UPI)
According to a Navy press release, the Giffords launched the missile as part of shipboard operational testing and evaluation March 19. "The recent missile launc...
Lockheed Martin wins $2.76B Army contract for guided missile rockets
Mar 29, 2021 (UPI)
The contract with Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control subsidiary, announced on Friday, calls for delivery of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems Alter...
N. Korea launch was new 'tactical guided projectile': Pyongyang
Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)
Pyongyang has a long history of using weapons tests to ramp up tensions, in a carefully calibrated process to try to forward its objectives. On Thursday it laun...
Pentagon wants new Command and Control System to counter hypersonic threats
Mar 23, 2021 (Sputnik)
The US Missile Defence Agency (MDA), the arm of the Pentagon responsible for creating a layered defensive shield against ballistic missile attack, has issued fo...
GAO: DoD should better coordinate hypersonic weapons programs
Mar 22, 2021 (UPI)
The Government Accountability Office noted that the development of hypersonic weapons and related technologies has cost about $14 billion since it started in 20...
US Navy seeks a way to arm Zumwalt destroyers with hypersonic missiles
Mar 22, 2021 (UPI)
The Navy's Strategic Systems Program offered a "sources sought notice" last week on government websites, an announcement to find companies capable of submitting...
Lockheed Martin's Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Soars In Flight Test
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
"Our new Extended-Range GMLRS significantly increases the range of the current system, offering the choice of munitions for longer distances and improving optio...
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