Missiles

KAUAI, Hawaii. PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY -- The latest evolution of the Aegis Combat System, Baseline 9.B2.0 (BMD 5.1), further advanced engage on remote technologies following a successful US Navy- and Missile Defense Agency-led...

  MBDA’s Marte ER anti-ship missile has completed its first firing, successfully passing a major phase in its development. The firing trial was carried out on 9 November in an Italian test range. The Marte...

THE FRENCH Defence Procurement Agency DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has awarded MBDA the contract for the MICA NG (Missile d’Interception et de Combat Aérien Nouvelle Génération) programme to develop the next generation of...

BUCHAREST, Romania. The Romanian government has signed an agreement with the US Army and transferred funding to the US government for the purchase of three additional Raytheon Patriot® Air and Missile Defense Systems from...

TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts. The US Army awarded Raytheon Company a $191 million contract for Ku-band radio frequency radars. KuRFS, an advanced electronically scanned array system, fills an immediate US Army operational need for a counter-unmanned...

  GRIPEN E has successfully completed the first tests to verify the ability to release and launch external payloads. The tests took place in October 2018 at Vidsel Test Range in the north of Sweden. The...

  PARIS. Le Bourget MBDA has unveiled its new naval offering based on the 5th generation MMP ground combat missile at Euronaval. This decision follows the operational evaluation campaign carried out at the end of...

TUCSON, Arizona. Five Raytheon Company-built SM-2 surface-to-air missiles successfully completed five test flights in back-to-back summer exercises conducted at sea by the Republic of Korea Navy, or ROKN, a company press statement said on...

TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon Company has delivered a RAM launcher to the Mexican government as part of the long-range off-shore patrol vessel (Patrulla Oceánica de Largo Alcance, or POLA) programme, marking the first delivery of...

TUCSON, Arizona. The US Army has completed qualification testing for a new proximity fuze that significantly enhances the combat-proven Stinger® missile produced by Raytheon Company. During recent testing at Eglin Air Force Base in...

SUNNYVALE, California. Lockheed Martin has selected Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to compete as potential mission payload providers for the US Air Force's Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous...

NEW DELHI. India has successfully conducted the development trials of Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVR-AAM) Astra. Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted a series of flight trials of Astra BVR-AAM at Integrated Test Range...

New Delhi. Astra, the indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), was successfully test fired by Indian Air Force from Su-30 aircraft from Air Force Station, Kalaikunda on September 26. The missile successfully...