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Zumwalt Advanced Gun System May Finally Get its Ammo

Steve Schneider - July 5, 2017

In late 2016 we found out the US Navy couldn’t fire its awesome new gun aboard the USS Zumwalt because the Long Range Land...

Is America’s Best Air-to-Air Missile a Dud?

Steve Schneider - June 30, 2017

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...

First- Ever High Energy Laser Fired From Apache

Steve Schneider - June 28, 2017

Raytheon has successfully fired its High Energy Laser (HEL) from an Apache AH-64, a first for a rotary winged aircraft. Raytheon’s HEL is a...

Raytheon Tests Next-Gen Ballistic Missile Killer

Steve Schneider - February 8, 2017

Raytheon reported that the US Navy and Missile Defense Agency have successfully tested the newest ballistic missile killer, the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor. The...

No Flying Under this Radar – Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar (ROTHR)

Steve Schneider - February 1, 2017

The U.S. military's early warning radar, the Relocatable Over-The-Horizon- Radar (ROTHR) has a new role in the 21st Century. The system, refitted with the...

New Technology Will Make the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Even Deadlier

Steve Schneider - January 20, 2017

Raytheon has said it is working on new technology that will allow ship commanders to revise the Tomahawk cruise missile’s flight path even after...

Can this Anti-Ship Missile’s Awesome Capabilities Be Beaten?

Steve Schneider - January 4, 2017

Kongsberg Defence Systems is reporting its Joint Strike Missile (JSM), a long-distance anti-ship missile designed to take on heavily defended, high value targets has...

Raytheon wins $225m contract for increased Patriot missile defense capability

The Editors - November 29, 2016

ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- An undisclosed member of the 13-nation group that owns the combat-proven Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defense System...

If it Floats it Fights – U.S. Navy Wants to Put Missiles on Everything

The Editors - October 28, 2016

The U.S. Navy is putting more power behind its offensive punch with a strategy called “distributed lethality.” “Potential adversaries, particularly in the Pacific region, have invested in weapons...

New Tech is Changing Undersea Warfare – A Battle Beneath the Waves

The Editors - October 14, 2016

Miles off the California coast and deep under the ocean’s surface, the chase is on. The prey: a submarine from a rogue nation caught raising its periscope earlier...

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