Weapons Systems / Lasers
The US Missile Defense Agency moved one step closer to their laser-equipped unmanned air vehicle with a plan to compete a low power laser demonstrator for missile defense. Before MDA equips a high-altitude, long-endurance UAV with a high-energy laser that could kill an intercontinental ballistic missile in the boost phase,
C-UAS
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday unveiled the country's long-awaited Bavar-373 air defense missile system with characteristics similar to Russia’s S-300. On the National Defense Industry Day, which is celebrated in Iran on August 21, Rouhani, accompanied by Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan, visited the exhibition
Military
The Pentagon, which has put a lot of effort in recent years into developing laser weapons, is continuing with a program intended to mount high-powered lasers on manned and unmanned aircraft to defend against heat-seeking missiles. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a $10.4 million
Military
Raytheon is planning ship-based swarm testing of its Coyote unmanned air vehicle in the coming weeks, under a research programme funded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR). Under the ONR’s Locust programme, 30 Coyotes demonstrated a swarm flight during a June test. This will be replicated at
Weapons Systems / Lasers
Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems, a business of Textron Inc. and Thales announced at the Farnborough Air Show the successful testing of the Fury lightweight precision guided glide weapon from the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) against static vehicle targets.The Fury was tested from a Textron Systems&
Weapons Systems / Lasers
It was a bad day for enemy cruise missiles and aircraft. In a series of tests, the newly upgraded Raytheon Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defense system proved it can destroy cruise missiles and aircraft with different kinds of interceptors. The combat-proven Patriot system, upgraded with a suite of enhancements
Weapons Systems / Lasers
The US Marine Corps is moving towards a future in which small dispersed units can protect themselves from incoming enemy drones with laser weapons and from missiles and aircraft with Stinger missiles, with both weapons netted into a detection system and mounted atop Humvees, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and other
Weapons Systems / Lasers
Lockheed Martin engineers are collaborating with customers and academia to research, develop and implement the technology that will detect and defeat swarms. “We are currently developing a 60-kilowatt system that combines multiple fiber lasers to generate the high power weapon beam,” said Rob Afzal, senior fellow with Lockheed Martin’s
Weapons Systems / Lasers
The US military successfully targeted and destroyed a moving truck from a drone using the missile designed to replace the venerable Hellfire. The Joint Air To Ground Missile (JAGM) was fired May 25 at a truck traveling at 20 mph from a Grey Eagle drone at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Weapons Systems / Lasers
The missile intended to ultimately replace the Hellfire was fired from a Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system and hit a moving truck target at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, according to the US Army’s Joint Attack Munition Systems project manager. Col. James Romero, who works out of the Missiles and
Weapons Systems / Lasers
Raytheon Company and UVision signed a teaming agreement to work together on small, loitering airborne solutions. As part of the deal, Raytheon will adapt the Hero-30 remotely-operated lethal loitering airborne system from Israel's UVision for U.S. military requirements. Hero-30 is a man-packed, canister-launched airborne loitering system. Raytheon
C-UAS
Last month, the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command proved again how effective the High Energy Laser Mobile Test Truck is at destroying unmanned aerial vehicles, quad-copters and even laptops with just a blast of concentrated light. "It completely destroyed the laptops," said Adam Aberle, the