On August 18th, just sixteen days after the official exit by the United States from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the US Navy fired a Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile… Continue reading "US Enters the Post-INF World With Ground Launch of Tomahawk Cruise Missile"
US submarine programs are facing what seems like a never ending round-robin of problems threatening to force them to miss critical deadlines. Welding issues on the launch tubes for submarine… Continue reading "US Submarine Programs Struggle Amidst a Storm of Problems"
Bahrain has joined the ever growing list of Patriot customers, becoming the seventeenth country to purchase the system for air and missile defense. With tensions in the Persian Gulf region… Continue reading "Bahrain Purchases Patriot Air Defense System"
The US State Department has cleared the sale of twelve MH-60R Seahawk helicopters and related equipment to South Korea. This is the first step in the process to actually selling… Continue reading "State Department Clears $800 Million Foreign Military Sale to South Korea for MH-60R Helicopters"
As I have written before, the balance between the primacy of the missile or the defense in the maritime battle-space is unclear at the moment. Missiles are getting smarter and… Continue reading "Behind a Tin Foil Shield: The Importance of Soft Kill Measures in Shipboard Missile Defense"
Northrop Grumman announced on the 30 July, that they had won a $167 million USD contract for full rate production of Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles (AARGMs). The Lot 8 full… Continue reading "Northrop Grumman Wins $167 Million Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Contract"
Loitering munitions go by many names. Whether they are labeled suicide drones, kamikaze drones, or lethal miniature aerial munitions, they are a very real and evolving capability and threat on… Continue reading "In Profile: Loitering Munitions"
The Royal Navy has recently conducted a series of tests for the Lightweight Multi-role Missile, also known as the Martlet. Tracing a design lineage from the Javelin, Starburst, and Starstreak… Continue reading "Royal Navy Conducts Tests of New Lightweight Multi-role Missile"
Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems, a joint venture between Indian Kalyani Strategic Systems and Israeli Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, has been awarded a $100 million dollar contract from Rafael Advanced Defense… Continue reading "Indian Firm Wins $100m Order for Barak 8 Surface to Air Missiles"
The B-52 has a long and storied history with nearly seventy years of active service, but its sensor suite has not aged as well as the rest of the bomber’s… Continue reading "Raytheon Selected to Develop Future B-52 Radar"