multi-purpose missiles

US Navy sonar technicians from the sonar central room of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry monitor ship bearings for contact during Foal ... US Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters fly during a combined arms live-fire exercise for Foal Eagle at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in ...

... it is developing a low-cost multi-purpose munition called Gray Wolf that can be fired in swarms to overwhelm enemy air defenses. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each hold five-year, $110 million contracts to develop the missile, which Lambert said should eventually cost about $100,000 a copy.

The purchase of the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter is a key element in the plan. Its STOVL capabilities would allow it to operate from both the new carrier and, potentially, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo-class “helicopter destroyer” multi-purpose ships, ...

It also has been added to the Navy's littoral combat ships, and it has been tested for launch from a variety of ground vehicles, from the M113 to the High-Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle. The missile is so versatile, in fact, that they're used for coastal defense by Norway and Sweden, and they're also used on the ...

"Russia has completed the trials of miniaturized nuclear power units for cruise missiles of unlimited range and for autonomous submersibles of an oceanic multi-purpose system. To date, those technologies have been designed and put into practice only by Russia," TASS reported quoting an unnamed ...

The source said that Russia had sent signals to "its uncooperative Western partners" in the past, intended to show them "the futility of their attempts to neutralize our strategic potential by the deployment of missile shield elements." Those signals included a leak about Russia's project to build underwater drones of unlimited ...

So many netizens seem to have this misconception that the old Topol missiles are just driving around Russia's vast landscape aimlessly, waiting for doomsday. Well they may be waiting, but they're going to be .... It's a multi purpose BMD and anti-ship missile. It's supersonic too. It's also VLS, same with the ...

Avantguard – Dodging the Interceptors at Mach 20: The Russians also develop surface launched hypersonic missiles that will be able to 'glide' on the upper atmosphere at Mach-20, twice the speed of the Dagger. The new Avantguard missile has already been tested and, according to President Putin, has ...

My daughter called to tell me that she had received an alert message on her smart phone that a missile was headed toward Hawaii. ... The final recommendation deals with infrastructure improvements for multi-purpose shelters, harbors, airports, etc. with costs “to be determined.” The one item with an ...

Project 20380/20385 warships are a series of multi-purpose corvettes (guard ships) developed for the Russian Navy for coastal water operations. ... As most shipbuilding projects in Russia were put on hold in the 1990s, the Navy stopped receiving not only missile cruisers, destroyers and strategic ...

The possibility of arming the Zumwalts with the new nuclear armed cruise missile would be a logistic extension of the U.S. Navy's previously .... Later, extended versions of the Virginia-class will also get new multi-purpose Virginia Payload Modules that will allow them to hold dozens more TLAMs. A torpedo ...

The announcements say that the 100 RGM-84Q-4 Harpoon Block II+ Extended Range missiles, plus another dozen older RGM-84L-4s that Finland would upgrade to that standard itself using conversion kits, would arm its existing Hamina-class missile boats and shore-based coastal defense batteries.

Furthermore, I noted that Hobbart-class destroyers are “multi-purpose weapons platforms that can be used for anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare operations, as well as gunfire support roles, next to the defending naval task forces from aircraft and missile attacks.” The Hobart-class program has been ...

That design looked very similar to the XQ-222 Valkyrie, a multi-purpose unmanned aircraft from drone maker Kratos that the U.S. Air Force also calls the ... Similar operating concepts could apply in air-to-air combat, as well, with the drones acting as missile trucks, engaging targets based on information from ...

Leonardo's new naval turret has been specifically developed to delivering superior performance for challenging missions such as anti-missile defence, anti-aircraft warfare and ship-to-ship ... It also possesses high manoeuvrability and is capable of firing multi-purpose, programmable, fused ammunition.