Production surge slows as Air Force nears weapons goal.
Munitions
DARPA wants to bring a gun to a missile fight. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing “Gunslinger,” a new air-launched missile equipped with a gun, for Air Force and Navy missions ranging from counterterrorism to dogfights with other aircraft, according to the fiscal ...
Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. on Dec. 19 received an $85 million contract for the Air Force's "Golden Horde" project that aims to show weapons can work together in self-directed swarms. The demonstration is one of AFRL's initial "vanguard" programs that will pull resources ...
Raytheon and the Air Force are working toward initially fielding the new Small Diameter Bomb II, or “StormBreaker,” on Boeing’s F-15E. The program recently finished operational testing. Air Force photo via Raytheon. The Air Force is furthering three bomb buys...
