United States Military Aviation

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Northrop Grumman's Talon Blue Collaborative Combat Aircraft Has Flown

Northrop Grumman has placed its hopes in Talon Blue to capture a piece of the USAF's future Collaborative Combat Aircraft portfolio.

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First Release Of USAF’s New HACM Hypersonic Cruise Missile Has Happened Over Australian Range

The US and Australia are partners on the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, which has finally reached flight testing after major delays.

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Ursa Major lands $91M to power a mini missile for F-35s
Ursa Major lands $91M to power a mini missile for F-35s

Key Points

• The U.S. Navy awarded Ursa Major $137 million for solid rocket motors for the Compact Air-to-Air Missile and the Naval Modular Missile.
• The $91 million CAAM contract covers a 7-inch motor, and the $46 million NMM contract covers a 10-inch quad-pack motor.

For CAAM, Ursa Major is designing a 7-inch (178 mm) motor. That is the same diameter as the AIM-120 AMRAAM and wider than the 5-inch AIM-9X Sidewinder, the Navy’s current short-range air-to-air missile. The company says the motor uses Highly Loaded Grain, a propellant design that packs more fuel into the motor case, giving a small missile more energy in the same volume. Ursa Major said it is building the development motor with the same methods it plans to use in full production, so it can move to high-rate manufacturing once the design is qualified.

 

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Pentagon names 4 directed-energy weapons for counter-drone program at US bases

The Pentagon named four directed energy weapons for a homeland counter-drone program, the first systems to be fielded and tested at U.S. bases.

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Shield AI expects to fly its unmanned fighter jet within months

The Navy is kicking in $150 million to further develop the X-BAT.

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