Lockheed Martin has conducted a successful 112km flight test of the Alternative Warhead (AW) variant of its Extended‑Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The rocket was launched from a High Mobility…
US defence prime contractor Lockheed Martin has opened a 17,000ft2 (1,600m2) Hypersonics System Integration Lab (SIL) at its Huntsville campus. Construction has taken just over one year and the US$17.1 million ($26 million) capital investment underscores Lockheed Martin’s commitment to maintaining US strategic…
European missile house MBDA has been awarded a £316 million ($641 million) contract to deliver new DragonFire High Energy Laser Weapon (HELW) systems to the Royal Navy from 2027. The system achieved a UK first in its latest test by…
Sydney based DroneShield has announced a further $7.6 million sale of its hand-held, Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System (C-UAS) products to the US Department of Defense. The company says it has received a package of 3 standalone contracts for handheld systems for…
Anduril Industries is one of a new crop of cashed-up defence technology companies - most of them in the United States - that is challenging the business models of long-established European and US prime contractors. The company is known for…
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) will make its first defence sector investment spending $10 million to acquire an equity stake in Brisbane-based Hypersonix Launch Systems (HLS). It is part of a consortium, alongside the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), SaaB…
Melbourne-based Leidos Australia has won the $45.9 million contract to be Defence’s Systems Integration Partner (SIP) in Line of Effort 1 of its Counter-Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-SUAS) Project LAND156. The announcement by Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry, comes…
Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) has signed the Copperhead Project Arrangement (PA) with the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). This will bring together cutting-edge technologies from both countries to develop affordable, next-generation guided weapons systems,…
Canberra-based Northrop Grumman Australia has raised its hand as a potential manufacturer in Australia of Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) for the guided weapons Australia plans to manufacture in-country. The company is vying with several competitors to establish an Australian Rocket…
French autonomy and navigation company Exail has secured a new contract with an undisclosed US-based global defence player. The agreement involves the delivery of 100 Phins Compact Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) to equip Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). Offering highly precise…