During a demonstration confirmed by Lockheed Martin’s CEO Jim Taiclet, the USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, ...
John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) — left Wednesday afternoon for acceptance trials after years of delays and Navy and congressionally mandated equipment changes to the ship. “John F. Kennedy departed our ...
A startup most people have never heard of just landed a $50 million Navy contract to build and test a hypersonic missile designed to be fired from a fighter jet, a weapon that could let carrier-based ...
The Demonstrator Laser Weapon System, acting as a ground-based test surrogate for the SHiELD system, was able to engage and shoot down several air-launched missiles during tests at the High Energy ...
The Navy this week announced a $17 million contract was awarded to a California contractor for a program to build a new laser gun called SONGBOW. The high-powered laser is being sought as a ship-based ...
For much of the 2000s and 2010s, electromagnetic railguns were touted as the future ...
The U.S. Navy succeeded in its test launch of a new long-range version of the Joint Direct Attack Munition, marking a milestone for a weapon that could allow carrier-based aircraft to strike targets ...
President Donald Trump has called for the US to outsource the building of at least a few Navy ships to foreign shipyards.