Tiny Missile Interceptor To Defend Aircraft Against Enemy Missile Attacks Moves Forward
These miniature weapons could provide a robust hard-kill defensive option for everything from stealth fighters to bombers to tankers.
Tag: hard-kill
Thousands Of Army Bradleys Don’t Have The Power To Use New Active Protection Systems
The vast majority of the U.S. Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicles cannot be fitted with a new Israeli-made active protection system for one simple reason, they cannot generate enough power to operate it. The service is in the process of upgrading a number of Bradleys to a new configuration with an auxiliary power unit that will enable them to carry the Iron Fist Light system. At present, however, it expects to leave most of these armored vehicles in their existing form in favor of developing an all-new replacement design, a program that has recently hit major hurdles, leading to the cancellation of a planned competition.
The U.S. Military Is Buying These Small Interceptor Drones To Knock Down Other Drones
A small California-based tech startup has reportedly begun supplying small “hard kill” attack drones to the U.S. military that are designed to bring down similarly sized hostile unmanned aircraft by physically smashing into them. The market, within the United States and around the world, for counter-drone systems, ranging from electronic warfare jammers to directed energy weapons to suicide drones, has exploded in recent years as the threats that even relatively cheap and diminutive unmanned aircraft pose has become glaringly apparent.
Army Hits Setbacks In Search For Active Protection System To Go On Its Strykers
The U.S. Army has still not settled on an active protection system, or APS, for its Stryker wheeled armored vehicles, despite having evaluated four different options in the last two and a half years. The service is now eying additional tests of two of those systems, a medium-weight variant of Israeli firm Rafael’s combat-proven Trophy and the Active Defense System from Germany’s Rheinmetall.
This Tiny Missile Smashes Incoming Artillery Rounds, Drones, And Possibly Much More
Lockheed Martin’s Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor is small and cheap, which could make it an attractive option to defend various platforms.
Navy Eyes ‘Hard-Kill’ Defenses For Transport, Tanker, and Possibly Unmanned Escort Planes
The service is looking for a system that launches interceptors at incoming missiles and could end up on more than half a dozen types of aircraft.