The company responsible for building some of Russia’s most lethal fighter jets is turning its attention to Unmanned Arial Vehicles. The Russian Aircraft Corporation (RAC) MiG is working on creating shock and reconnaissance drones, some of which could be fighter sized aircraft, reports TASS News. A MiG spokesperson, Anastasia Kravchenko announced at the 2017 Dubai […]
Fighter Jets with Tactical Laser Shields Are One Step Closer to Reality
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has awarded Lockheed Martin $26.3 million for the design, development, and production of high powered lasers that can be fitted on fighter jets. The plan is to test a compact, high efficiency fiber laser on a fighter jet by 2021. The contract is part of the USAF’s Self-protect High […]
US Fifth Generation Fighters Could Have a New Weapon
The United States needs a new air-to-air missile that can keep up with the new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars currently aboard the F-22 and F-35. The AMRAAM is a 1980’s era missile that “we’re close to maxing out”, Capt. Jim Stoneman, the Naval Air Systems Command program manager told the National Interest. The AESA radar can […]
Parts Shortage Causing 6 Month Repair Time for F-35s
As the Pentagon accelerates towards full-rate production of the F-35 in 2019, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is reporting that maintenance facilities are facing parts shortages causing repair times up to 6 months. It has been reported that the most ambitious and costliest weapon system in world history was unable to fly 22 percent of […]
Army Investigating Stryker Mounted Missiles and Lasers to Protect Against Drone Strikes
Raytheon, along with the U.S. Army, tested a Stinger missile mounted into a Common Remotely Operated Weapons Station (CROWS) atop a Stryker Vehicle at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The successful test carried out in September of 2017 combines two proven systems giving the U.S. Army an immediate short-range mobile air defense […]
Raptor Hoverbike Turns Heads at Defense Show
The 25th annual MSPO 2017, an international defense industry exhibition took place on September 4th 2017 in Kielce, Poland. The event showcased products for land, sea, and air defense including technological equipment, weapons systems, missiles, tanks, guided weapons, and much more. There was one specific vehicle that seemed to grab all the attention at the […]
U.S. Air Force Testing Dangerous Gravity Bomb
The U.S. Air Force recently tested its most advanced nuclear weapon, the B61-12 gravity bomb. This new bomb, dubbed the B61-12 LEP, is part of the B61 life extension program. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the U.S. Air Force completed two qualification flight tests of a B61-12 gravity bomb […]
Navy’s New Missile Shoots Down Advanced Ballistic Threat
Raytheon is reporting that its new Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) intercepted an advanced medium-range missile at sea. It was the third successful ballistic missile intercept for the SM-6. The SM-6 is the only missile that supports anti-air, anti-surface, and sea-based ballistic missile defense. A Raytheon (NYSE: RTN)-built Standard Missile-6 intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target at sea in […]
Could the Air Force Kill the A-10 Replacement?
In a recent Aviation Week article, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldstein hints that the Air Force may move away from the single mission close-air support (CAS) platform. The Air Force may scrap a direct replacement for the A-10 and instead move in the direction of a family of systems for close-air support (CAS) missions. […]
Is America’s Best Air-to-Air Missile a Dud?
By now you have heard about how a US F/A-18E Super Hornet downed a Syrian Su-22 fighter jet on June 18th. The news spread around media outlets like wildfire as it was the first manned aircraft downed by the US since 1999. Once the smoke cleared we learned the Su-22 “Fitter”, a 30-year-old Cold War […]
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