The Japanese Defense Ministry has reported to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that the F-15J upgrade program will proceed without the Lockheed Martin AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), according to state broadcaster NHK.

The recoverable exercise-variant torpedo, which lacks a warhead or propulsion system, was released by the aircraft near the UK’s main Poseidon operating base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland. 

The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 44 Raytheon RIM-116C Rolling Airframe Missiles Block 2 to Japan. The missiles are destined for Japan Maritime Self Defense Force ships.

U.S. Air Force officials will not know how the latest test failure of a hypersonic missile prototype will impact the schedule until an ongoing root cause investigation is completed, Brig. Gen. Heath Collins said on Aug. 4.

An extended-range version of a U.S. Navy anti-radiation missile completed a successful first air-launched, live-fire test on July 19 over the Point Mugu Missile Range off the California coast, the Navy said on Aug. 3.

The German Air Force is undertaking operational testing of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile as it prepares to field the weapon on the Eurofighter before year’s end.

Hypersonic flight testing for the U.S. Air Force is off to a rough start.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Aug. 1 that an Iranian unmanned air vehicle (UAV) attacked an Israeli-managed oil tanker in the…