MCKINNEY, Texas — Raytheon Intelligence & Space delivered the next high-energy laser weapon system to the U.S. Air Force. It will be deployed overseas for operator training and experimental testing and evaluation. Following the completion of the Directed Energy Weapon Initial Operational Employmen…

The world’s most advanced torpedo is on the cusp of entering service with the Royal Navy after extensive trials in Scotland.

The upgraded Spearfish – the principal weapon of the UK’s Submarine Flotilla against enemy ships and submarines – was ‘fired’ repeatedly at frigate HMS Sutherland as scient…

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — In support of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) selection program, U.S. Army Redstone Test Center (RTC) Experimental Test Pilots (XPs) conducted flights of the Bell V-280 Valor in August 2020, as part of the U.S. Army Test and Evalua…

RAF WYTON, UK — The cavernous space inside RAF Wyton, an airbase near Cambridge, resembles a newsroom. But the stories traded here are heavily classified. The Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre, which opened in 2012, is the world’s only hub where personnel from across the Five Eyes alliance (compr…

Germany’s biggest gun-maker Heckler & Koch (H&K) has been delivered a major blow by the government, losing out on the tender process to provide the German military’s new standard assault rifle. Its last one had issues.

H&K has been one of the German military’s main suppliers since 1959, though a …

Pilots and navigators of the 4th Fighter Squadron recently left the Expeditionary Air Base in the Levant, replaced by the fighter jets of the 30th Fighter Squadron. After having carried out more than 250 sorties in just under 1,300 flight hours, the two-seater Rafale are giving way to single-seater …