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Raytheon has won a phase one contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop photonic circuits that process signals entirely with light, the company said on Nov. 3. The work falls under DARPA’s PICASSO program, short for Photonic Integrated Circuit Architectures for Scalable System Objectives. Raytheon, an RTX business, did not disclose the […]
Russian forces dropped 8,016 guided aerial bombs on Ukrainian positions in October, an 11% fall from September’s record, the monitoring project Oko Gora said in a post summarizing the month. The figure works out to an average of 259 bombs a day and is the first monthly decline after a long climb through the summer. […]
Two Polish defense companies have agreed to work together on the wheeled chassis for 155mm self-propelled howitzers that Poland plans to build under license from Ukraine. PK MIL, part of the PONAR Wadowice group, and SZCZĘŚNIAK Pojazdy Specjalne of Bielsko-Biała signed a memorandum of understanding to select and adapt chassis for the systems, the companies […]
Poland has delivered more Rosomak 8×8 armored vehicles armed with the ZSSW-30 unmanned turret and Spike anti-tank missiles to the Land Forces Training Ground Center in Poznań, where they will be used to train soldiers from mechanized units, the country’s Armament Agency said on social media. The agency said the delivery is the next stage […]
Counter-drone missile maker Perseus Defense has released video of one of its small, low-cost interceptors climbing into the sky and hitting a hovering multirotor drone, which the company’s chief executive described as the first time an “attritable” missile has shot down a drone. Jason Cornelius, co-founder and CEO of the Texas-based company, posted the eight-second […]
Siemens Mobility and Lufthansa Technik Defense plan to build a hospital train for the German armed forces and NATO allies that could carry more than 150 wounded or sick patients, including those needing intensive care, the two companies said on Nov. 3. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding ahead of the Berlin Security Conference […]
Japanese satellite-servicing company Astroscale and German space firm OHB have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore working together on technology to protect satellites and other infrastructure in orbit, with a focus on linking Astroscale’s British subsidiary with OHB in Germany. The two companies announced the agreement on Oct. 28 at the German Embassy in […]
Auriga Space, a California company building electromagnetic launch technology, wants to fix one of the slowest steps in developing American hypersonic weapons: testing their materials and parts on the ground. Instead of a rocket-powered sled racing down steel rails, its Prometheus accelerator uses an electric linear motor to push a magnetically levitated test article through […]
Kazakhstan has taken delivery of its second Airbus A400M Atlas heavy military transport aircraft, completing a two-plane order the Central Asian country placed in 2021, the Kazakh Defense Ministry said on Nov. 2. The aircraft flew from Airbus’ A400M final assembly line in Seville, Spain, to Almaty, where it joins the Air Defense Forces, Kazakhstan’s […]
The U.S. Navy’s top officer, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, got a close look at Blackbeard, the new air-launched hypersonic strike missile that the Navy is preparing to arm its F/A-18E/F Super Hornets with, during a visit to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland on Oct. 28, the U.S. Navy said. Caudle […]
