The US Army is interested in a surface-to-air missile (SAM) that would be complementary to the current Surface-Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM).rnThe new missile would be able to share that system's launcher and fire-control system but would have a longer-range...
The US army has demonstrated the ability of its Griffin B air-to-surface missile to engage a small target, Raytheon announced on 14 February. During the test, the missile was fired from a ground-based launcher. Using GPS coordinates generated by a tethered aerostat, it scored a direct hit ...
Plans toacquire a long-range precision munition for the Army’s future fleet of helicoptershave been in the works for several years, and the service has already picked Israeli companyRafael’s Spike non-line-of-sight missile as an interim solutionto deliver long-range lethality from both...
And Moscow also expressed its anger over the fact that the US maintains and upgrades its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, “in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders.” Recently fears grew of a Russian-US military standoff after lethal surface-to-air missiles were placed on the dispu...
The GEM-T missile provides an upgraded capability to defeat air-breathing, cruise and ballistic missiles, as a complement to the PAC-3 missile. The first upgrade fore-bodies were delivered to the US Army in November 2002. By September 2010, a total of 1,000 Patriot missiles had been upgrad...
The test shots were performed in challenging terrain. The AH-64 hid behind 1,600 feet of craggy mountain and took take aim at a target representing a Russian Pantsir medium-range, surface-to-air missile system on the opposite slope. In the shot witnessed by Defense News, the Apache ...
Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet fighter pilot in Viet Nam. After 75 missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb parachuted down into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. One day, Plumb
The missile is integrated with combat aircraft such as the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, Typhoon, Gripen, Tornado, Harrier, F-4, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It is also used by the Surface-Launched AMRAAM of the US Army and NASAMS (Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile Sy...
Among earlier autonomous military systems, the Phalanx close-in point defense gun and the Patriot surface-to-air missile have both misperformed. Used only once in combat, during the first Gulf War in 1991, thePhalanx firedat a chaff decoy cloud rather than countering the attacking anti-ship mi...
The site may bring in low-cost threat emitters, or hardware that replicates surface-to-air missile systems so pilots can learn to evade enemy air defenses. Air Education and Training Command boss Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson “has promised ‘first-class’ training, not ‘world...