The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) XQ-67A, a second-generation Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP), has successfully demonstrated integration of government reference autonomy during a recent flight test in the California High Desert, says General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI). During…
The UK Ministry of Defence’s Hypersonic Weapons Program has successfully completed a major propulsion system test program at NASA’s Langley Research Center in the USA. The propulsion system under development is set to power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile concept,…
Californian company Varda Space Industries' W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range in South Australia, completing a 45 day dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA. The Koonibba Test Range…
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has successfully demonstrated the Lab’s new Quicksink weapon in a trial held during Ex RIMPAC 24 in Hawaii. A US Air Force B-2 bomber sank the 39,000-tone decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa…
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Raytheon have successfully completed a three-week field test of the CHIMERA High-Power Microwave (HPM) weapon at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. During the test, CHIMERA applied directed energy to multiple different…
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has conducted a demonstration of its high-power microwave counter-drone weapon, the Tactical High-power Operational Responder, or THOR, as it engaged a swarm of multiple targets at the Chestnut Test Site, Kirtland Air Force…
The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX has awarded Los Angeles-based Exosonic, Inc a US$1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract to develop a digital design and trade study for a fifth-generation supersonic target. This contract was awarded…
US firm Leidos has been awarded a US$334 million contract to assist the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in developing an air-breathing hypersonic system. The Expendable Hypersonic Multi-mission ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and Strike program, known as Mayhem, will…
The Catalyst Accelerator, sponsored by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Space Force and ONE Dev LLC, is accepting applications from Australian and other international SMEs to take part in its tenth cohort. This is the first internationally…
DroneShield’s counter-drone and counter–autonomous system Sensor and Command-and-Control platforms are now fully compliant with the U.S. Government’s Team Awareness Kit (TAK), the company has announced. The TAK system, originally developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is used…