Austal USA shipyard announced that the future USNS Newport, the 12th Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport ship built for the U.S. Navy has successfully completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico. USNS Newport is the 12th Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport ship built by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, for the United States Navy (USN). Austal […]

Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp. has announced that the Swiss Army chooses Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for tactical reconnaissance and surveillance. Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin for a fleet of Indago 3 UAS, with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Army, according to a […]

Britain’s biggest defense company BAE Systems reported that sales increased by 4% on a constant currency basis and excluding the impact of acquisitions, to £9.9bn or $13 billion. “We have delivered a robust performance in the first half of the year, thanks to the efforts of all of our employees. We started the year from […]

General Dynamics, one of the largest U.S. defense contractors, reported its second-quarter results. Net earnings of $625 million on revenue of $9.3 billion. The details were given in a 29 July media release, to announce net cash provided by operating activities in the quarter totaled $843 million, $552 million better than the year-ago quarter. Free […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings reported results for the three months ended June 30 that surpassed analyst expectations thank to increase in net sales primarily driven by the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (“GMLRS”) and Medium Range Ballistic Missile (“MRBM”) programs partially offset by a decline in the Redesigned Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (“RKV”) program which was canceled […]

New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) Soldiers have begun testing electric utility bike developed by the UBCO. According to a company news release, the NZDF is running battle-lab experiments using the UBCO 2×2 Utility Bike, Portable Power Supplies and Accessories for use in reconnaissance, surveillance, and other applications. Branches of the NZ Defense Force will each […]

Hanwha Defense Co. is claiming a revolution in track armored infantry fighting vehicle technology as part of its new Redback family. South Korean multinational defense and security company has rolled out two prototypes of the Redback armored infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) to be delivered to the Australian Army. The delivery is taken under the Risk […]

The U.S. Army awarded defense firm BAE Systems multi-year contract to develop guidance kits for 155mm artillery shells. The contract, from U.S. Army, is valued at more than $33 million and covers develop Long Range Precision Guidance Kit (LR-PGK) for 155mm artillery shells, enabling the Army to conduct long range precision strikes in challenging electromagnetic environments. […]

U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman has announced that it formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus, Inc. to offer the company’s Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of  Northrop Grumman’s Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering. According to a company news release, the new advanced EMP capability will use to defeat UAS swarms, […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has given the green light for Raytheon Co. Missile Systems, to start research and development of a flight-test ready miniature self-defense missile. The Department of Defense announced on Tuesday an agreement worth about $375 million for a mini-missile interceptor designed to protect military aircraft from incoming missiles. Work will […]