The static test at sea level at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama demonstrated the throttleable motor funded by Phase 2 of DARPA’s Operational Fires (OpFires) program. 

Japan is reportedly considering dropping plans to acquire Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile due to “ballooning costs.”

A request for information published on June 14 by the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) gives industry until July 7 to submit ideas for UAS swarms.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have received contracts from the U.S. Defense Department (DOD) to launch the next step in the development of a scramjet-powered, hypersonic cruise missile. 

The former head of the U.S. Defense Department’s research and engineering branch said on June 11 that a sweeping, three-year push to transition decades of experiments with hypersonic vehicles into operational missiles has fallen short of his goal for enabling mass production.

The review will be worked as a part of the Biden Administration’s National Defense Strategy and feed into the integrated deterrence review.

Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Harker has directed the service to defund nuclear sea-launched cruise missile development in fiscal 2023, according to a memo obtained by Aerospace DAILY.

Unlike traditional weapons-firing platforms, most mobility aircraft lack onboard targeting systems. Two new organizations may form at least part of the enterprise needed to make the MC-130s and C-17s credible as weapons platforms.