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General Atomics recently showed what it says is a rendering of an MQ-20 Avenger drone armed with a laser directed energy weapon.
Unmanned

MQ-20 Avenger Depicted With Laser Weapon In Its Nose A Sign Of What’s To Come

General Atomics is exploring laser armament options for drones across its portfolio, including its new Gambit family of autonomous combat aircraft.

jAS 39 E
Gripen

Gripen E Fighter Officially Joins The Swedish Air Force

The Gripen E multirole fighter has now been delivered to the Swedish Air Force, as the service continues to strengthen itself to face off potential Russian aggression.

Shield AI has unveiled X-BAT, a stealthy jet-powered 'autonomous fighter' designed to take off vertically and land the same way, tail first, after completing its mission.
Loyal Wingman

The Rise Of X-BAT

Shield AI's highly ambitious plan to disrupt the autonomous combat aircraft market with its VTOL stealth drone.

Lockheed Martin is aiming to conduct an on-orbit demonstration of at least one space-based anti-missile interceptor design no later than 2028.
U.S. Space Force

Lockheed To Test Golden Dome Space-Based Missile Interceptor In Orbit By 2028

Space-based interceptors are a key part of the Golden Dome missile defense vision, but are also one of its most challenging.

Singapore today launched the first of its drone motherships, or Multi-Role Combat Vessels (MRCV). The largest and most complex ship in the Republic of Singapore Navy, the Victory is the first of a planned six of these vessels. These will replace the existing Victory class missile corvettes (MCV), which entered service in 1989, and will form the cornerstone of its fleet modernization effort.
Frigates

Singapore Launches Its Biggest And Most Capable Warship Ever

Planned as hybrid frigates and drone motherships, the Multi-Role Combat Vessels will be able to project naval power further, and for longer, than previous Singaporean warships.

M-346 jet trainer that's vying to become the Navy's T-45C replacement
T-45

Walk-Around Tour Of Beechcraft’s M-346 That’s Vying To Become The Navy’s Next Jet Trainer

We got a close look at the M-346, which Textron and Leonardo have teamed up to offer the Navy as a replacement for the T-45 Goshawk.

The Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) recently awarded Saab with the contract, worth around $276 million and covering the period from 2025 to 2027. As well as the FMV, Saab will work with the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Defense Research Agency, GKN Aerospace, and other industry partners.
Gripen

Sweden Pushes Ahead With Future Fighter Program

Crewed or uncrewed, or both, Sweden’s next-generation air combat program just got an important boost.

With a steady drumbeat of reports raising the prospect of some kind of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, it’s worth looking at what is potentially one of its most threatening weapons: the Russian-made Kh-31 air-to-surface missile. Known to NATO as the AS-17 Krypton, the ramjet-powered missile is available in both anti-radiation and anti-ship versions, with the ship-killer being the most relevant in this context.
Anti-Ship Cruise Missile

Venezuela’s Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles Are A Real Threat To American Warships

Fired by Su-30MK2V Flankers, the Russian-supplied Kh-31 anti-ship missiles are still a danger to U.S. warships operating near Venezuelan shores.

Lockheed Martin has received a new full-rate production contract, valued at $233 million, for Block II IRST21 infrared search and track sensors to go into pods for U.S. Navy and U.S. Air National Guard fighters.
F/A-18E/F

Troubled Infrared Pod For Navy Super Hornets Gets New Vote Of Confidence

Lockheed Martin has secured a deal for full-rate production of IRST21 sensors to go into Navy pods that have suffered reliability and other integration issues.

GJ-X Chinese large flying wing drone.
UCAVs

China’s Huge ‘GJ-X’ Stealth Drone Appears To Have Been Spotted In The Air For The First Time

The massive 'cranked kite' planform flying-wing was first spotted on the runway at China's drone test base near Malan just a couple of months ago.

TIRANA, ALBANIA - SEPTEMBER 16: View of the interior of the Minister of Internal Affairs' office within Bunk'Art 2, a Cold War-era museum located near the Ministry of Interior in Tirana, Albania, showcasing the design, security features, and atmosphere of the period, offering insight into the secretive operations of the Albanian government during the Cold War, on September 16, 2024, in Tirana, Albania. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

It's like living in a submarine, but you are going nowhere.

A Russian strategic nuclear forces (SNF) officer inspects a launching tube in the launching center of intercontinental ballistic missiles 20 March 1992 in Drovjanaja, near Cita, in Siberia. The strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation consist of ground intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBM) stationary, and also mobile, earth and railway variants of basing, sea and aviation strategic nuclear arms.
Air

Soviets Tested ICBM Silo Defense System That Showered Incoming Warheads With Clouds Of Metal Darts

Russia got as far as testing the terminal hard-kill active protection-like system for protecting its ICBMs from incoming ballistic missile barrages.

The U.S. Army is in the very early stages of formulating a vision for fleets of advanced and highly autonomous drones in a similar vein to the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Navy are now developing.
Loyal Wingman

U.S. Army’s Vision For Loyal Wingman Drones To Fly With Its Helicopters Is Taking Shape

The Army is following the other services' Collaborative Combat Aircraft efforts as it looks to team its rotorcraft with highly autonomous drones.

Kratos ragnarok cruise missile on an XQ-58.
XQ-58

Ragnarok Mini-Cruise Missile With Big Range Targets $150K Price Tag (Updated)

Kratos has unveiled its low-cost cruise missile that it says can fly a whopping 500 nautical miles while carrying an 80-pound payload.

Iranian-made Shahed-136 'Kamikaze' drone flies over the sky of Kermanshah, Iran on March 7, 2024. Iran fired over 100 drones and ballistic missiles on Saturday, April 13, 2024, in retaliation to an attack on a building attached to the country's consular annex in Damascus that killed the guards, and two generals of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on April 01, 2024. Iran has blamed Israel for the attack on April 5, 2024 in Tehran.
Air

Army “Absolutely Needs” Drones Like Russia’s Shahed-136: 25th Infantry Division Commander

The commanding general of the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division is the latest U.S. Army senior officer to push for long-range one-way attack drones.

Lockheed Martin is among those to have gotten the go-ahead to move forward in a competition to design a second interceptor for the U.S. Army's middle-tier Enduring Shield air defense system.
U.S. Army

New Surface-To-Air Missile Enters Army Mid-Tier Air Defense Competition

The Army is seeking to expand the capabilities of the Enduring Shield system, which currently fires AIM-9X Sidewinders.

Not every lesson in Ukraine is applicable to U.S. Army aviation a top general told us.
Helicopters

The Lessons U.S. Army Aviation Is Learning From The War In Ukraine

U.S. Army general tells us how the war in Ukraine has changed Army aviation's future and what lessons are best left unheeded.

A trio of U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers was tracked flying orbits in international airspace off the coast of Venezuela earlier today.
B-52

B-52 Bombers Just Flew For Hours Off Venezuela’s Coast (Updated)

The B-52 sorties are a major show of force aimed at Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as U.S. forces further step up operations in the Caribbean.

Boeing C-32
C-32

C-32A Carrying Hegseth Makes Emergency Landing In England After Rapid Descent

The head of the Pentagon was heading back to Washington from a NATO conference in Brussels when the emergency was declared.

Leonardo DRS talks about its CUAS efforts at AFA25

Leonardo DRS Spells Out Its Latest Approach To Counter-UAS For The U.S. Army

Branded Content: The Air Defense Light Variant packs layered counter-UAS and short-range air defense capabilities into a highly mobile JLTV.