Weapons Systems – Combat Rated

Artillery, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
12:36 pm

The Navy’s Phalanx close-in weapon system fires 20mm rounds at up to 4,500 a minute from a 1,550-round magazine, and it was first installed on USS Coral Sea in 1980

Phalanx is the gun a warship counts on when everything else has missed. The Mk

Missiles, Weapons Evolution, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
8:17 am

The Sidewinder, which the Office of Naval Research calls the world’s most widely used air-to-air missile, began as a side project and remains in active service more than 70 years later

A physicist at a Navy test station wanted a cheap missile that could find an

Weapons Evolution, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
8:34 am

How C-130 crews dropped the BLU-82, a 15,000-pound bomb only cargo aircraft could carry, by parachute to clear helicopter landing zones about 260 feet across

The BLU-82/B weighed 15,000 pounds and was built to make room, not to hit a

Missiles, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
8:00 am

The Army’s Dark Eagle hypersonic missile, first scheduled to become available in 2023, still has not been declared fully fielded, the Army says

Dark Eagle ground equipment reached its first Army unit in 2021, and the service activated

Missiles, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
8:00 am

Raytheon has fired a Coyote drone interceptor with a tactical rocket motor for the first time, in three tests of an upgrade that went from concept to testing in 15 months

A tactical rocket motor is the main new part of Raytheon’s Coyote Block 2C+RM, and

Missiles, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
6:00 am

The Air Force may buy land for 120 new Sentinel ICBM silos as it replaces 450 Minuteman III silos one for one, under a new environmental review

Building the LGM-35A Sentinel may take land the U.S. Air Force does not own. A

Weapons Evolution, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
1:30 pm

The bazooka took its name from radio comedian Bob Burns’ homemade trombone, and General Electric had 5,000 of the rocket launchers ready for combat by May 1942

A homemade horn built by an Arkansas radio comedian gave a World War II U.S.

Missiles, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
8:30 am

An Army Typhon battery assigned to Multi-Domain Command Europe fired its first Tomahawk at China Lake on Sept. 28, the third Typhon firing in the continental U.S., the Army says

A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile fired from a newly fielded Typhon launcher on Sept. 28,

Missiles, Weapons Systems

David Patrick
6:00 am

The Air Force Research Laboratory certified Anduril’s Barracuda cruise missile as compliant with its open-architecture weapons standard after a four-day check of 14 domains

Anduril’s Barracuda cruise missile has passed the Air Force Research Laboratory’s independent check for open-architecture

Weapons Systems

David Patrick
11:00 am

BAE Systems has delivered more than 1,500 AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare systems for the F-35 and will build more for Lots 20 through 22

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