Tag: guided weapons
Brimstone Completes Drone Test Trials
MBDA has successfully demonstrated the operation of Dual Mode Seeker Brimstone (DMB) missile from an MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), scoring nine direct hits...
IMI Expands MPR Multi-Purpose Bomb Line
IMI is expanding its family of Multi-Purpose Rigid Bombs (MPR) providing a warhead optimized for modern aerial weapons’ guidance kits. The first of the...
Sharpening the Spike
RAFAEL is introducing enhanced versions of the Spike family missiles, including a Spike NLOS offering improved seekers and targeting capabilities and adaptation to air,...
Israel’s F-35s will Carry the Spice 1000 Guided Weapons
Rafael is proceeding with the adaptation of the Spice 1000 Electro-Optically, Stand-Off guided weapon as part of its roadmap to carry this family of...
Seoul to Equip its New Maritime Helicopters with Israeli SPIKE Missiles
The South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced Friday that the new Wildcat helicopters being acquired for the Republic of Korea Navy will be...
GMLRS Completes Engineering Development Flight Tests with Alternative Warhead Configuration
Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the third engineering development test flight of the new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Alternative Warhead at White Sands Missile Range, N.M....
Air Force, Marines Clearing APKWS Guided Rockets for F-16, A-10 and...
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the success of recent tests conducted with a fixed wing variant of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System...
Spike NLOS, Hyumu-2,3 showcased on South Korea’s Parade
South Korea's Armed Forces Day on Tuesday, October 1st, saw the first public display of two new home-grown missiles. The Chosun Ilbo reports. The Country's Hyunmu-3C...
A New Land Systems Division at Rafael – adapting systems for...
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems ltd, developer of highly advanced weapon systems for the IDF and the defense establishment, has recently undergone reorganization. One of...
India’s Planned Mountain Strike Corps to Cost $13 Billion
The Indian cabinet committee on security (CCS) gave its approval for raising a mountain strike corps along the China border. This would be India's...
Guided Projectiles Competing Over Naval 5-Inch Guns
The Multi-Service Standard Guided Projectile (MS-SGP) went through a successful first test firing from a 5-inch 62-caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 Naval Gun System at White Sands...
Brimstones for Reapers?
The US Air Force is looking at equipping its General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft with British-developed Brimstone missiles, to reduce collateral damage. The...
US Navy Tests Rafael Spike Missiles on Unmanned vessels
The US Navy has test fired the Israeli Spike Electro-Optically Guided Missile from an unmanned boat last week, on Oct. 24th, as part of an operational demonstration of the weapon conducted as part of an international agreement between Israel Ministry of Defense and the US Combating Terrorist Tactics Support Office.
The Sensor Becoming the Shooter
After decades of relying exclusively on laser and GPS for precision attack, the military and US special operations community is slowly opening to consider Electro-Optically (EO) guided weapons, gaining strike precision at extended range.
