In electric-powered laser test, Navy shoots down cruise missile analog
The Navy is preparing to outfit a destroyer with a separate directed energy weapon this year.
Non-Standard: Navy SM-6 Kills Cruise Missiles Deep Inland
You wouldn’t expect the Navy to test its weapons in the desert. But that’s just what happened Thursday at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, an Army facility 500 miles from the sea, where a Standard Missile-6 successfully intercepted a mock cruise missile flying low and slow over land. Hitting that target is one sign […]
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As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Harris Takes Aim At Army Radios: General Dynamics Apologizes To Army
[corrected Dennis Moran’s title at 3:45 pm] AUSA: General Dynamics issued what the Army’s top tester called a “mea culpa” over its troubled Manpack radio, while archrival Harris sharpened its knives to compete with GD for both the backpack-sized Manpack and the smaller Rifleman Radio. At a briefing for reporters at the Association of the […]
Army Troops Slam New Combat Smartphone
WHITE SANDS, NM: After weeks of testing at the Army’s vast facility here a private summed up the service’s newest iteration of the so-called Nett Warrior communication system in one phrase: “It ain’t ready.” Soldiers with the 2nd Heavy Combat Brigade, 1st Armored Division (2/1 Armored) spent several weeks at the Army’s latest network integration […]