Russia’s R-77 sem-active radar homing air-to-air missile — NATO designation AA-12 — is widely considered to be equivalent to the American AIM-120 AMRAAM. But in fact, the R-77 isn’t nearly as successful as the AIM-120. It may never have […]
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The Air version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired from the supersonic fighter aircraft Sukhoi 30 MK-I at 1030 hrs from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on December […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, and the U.S. Navy conducted the first-ever weapon drop of a StormBreaker smart weapon from a Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II. During the test, an F-35B naval […]
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The U.S. DoD has contracted Raytheon to provide support and development work for its air-to-air missile, AIM-9X. Raytheon has been awarded a contract modification worth $37 million to procure Operation Flight Software Version 9.5 and […]
The U.S. State Department approved the potential sale of 280 AIM-120C AMRAAM air-to-air missiles in a deal valued at up to $650 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has requested […]
One of the companies likely to play a major role in developing local guided weapons is Raytheon Australia. The company is the prime contractor for the army’s future $1.5 billion ground-based air defence system being […]
China’s Guangdong Hongda Blasting Co Ltd presented HD-1A missile that shares striking similarities to the Ukrainian-made Bliskavka (“Lightning”) supersonic cruise missile. The company unveiled a mock-up of its new missile system at the Airshow China […]
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