Air-Launched Weapons
Chinese CH-AS-X-13 Is The Largest Air-launched Missile
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Air-Launched Weapons
Air-Launched Weapons
Rafael Extends SPICE 250 Munition’s Range With New Turbojet Engine
At the Aero India 2021 exhibition, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. is unveiling a new variant of its SPICE 250 air-to-surface munition, with the addition of an integrated turbojet engine. The new variant dubbed SPICE […]
Air-Launched Weapons
BAE Systems Awarded £2.4 Billion Contract To Manufacture Munitions For British Military
BAE Systems has been awarded a new 15-year contract for the supply of munitions to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). The contract, worth £2.4bn, will sustain approximately 4,000 jobs across the UK. This new […]
Air-Launched Weapons
Azerbaijan buys Turkish Air-launched SOM Cruise Missiles
Azeri sources have recently confirmed to ES&D that a number of ROKETSAN-built SOM-B1 ALCMs have been acquired. While a sale of JF-17 “Thunder” to Azerbaijan has not been realized – this rumor exists since 2016 […]
Air-Launched Weapons
Israeli Kamikaze Harop Drones Capable of Destroying Russian Krasukha-4 EW Systems
Israeli has improved kamikaze drones “Harop” with new countermeasures capability against enemy electronic interference by electronic warfare systems which can now destroy the Russian electronic warfare systems. The Russian Army has deployed “Krasukha-4” electronic warfare […]
Air-Launched Weapons
F-35 Launched Stormbreaker Small Diameter Bombs
The Air Force is preparing to arm its F-35 with a new, all-weather course-correcting air-dropped precision bomb able to destroy moving targets from distances as far as 40 miles. It uses a data link and multi-mode targeting seeker to follow […]
Air-Launched Weapons
US Air Force’s F-35A Drops B61-12 Nuclear Bomb
Two major US defense initiatives recently came together as a US Air Force F-35A Lightning II dropped a mock refurbished B61-12 nuclear bomb for the first time. The test, which took place over Sandia National Laboratories’ Tonopah […]
Air-Launched Weapons
MBDA to develop MHT/MLP Missile For French Army
The French government has selected MBDA to develop its Missile Haut de Trame/Missile Longue Portée (MHT/MLP – High Tier Missile/Long Range Missile) concept as the preferred solution for the Direction Générale de l’Armement’s (DGA’s – […]
Air-Launched Weapons
GBU-57 MOP: The Knockout Punch of The US Air Force
The Air Force has given Boeing a mulit-million contract to procure the GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrator – a bomb designed to destroy hardened underground targets like those found in North Korea or Iran. The announcement does not […]
Air-Launched Weapons
Taiwanese Air Force test-fires locally made cruise missiles
TAIPEI (GDC) — A two-seater Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) from the Air Force’s First Fighter Wing on Wednesday (Nov. 11) took off from Tainan to carry out a test firing of the domestically built Wan […]