Future Weapons

US Navy Awards Castelion $23.4M Contract for Blackbeard Hypersonic Missiles Defense startup Castelion has received a $23.4 million contract to produce and deliver 50 Blackbeard hypersonic missile prototypes... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

FBI Disrupts Alleged Drone Attack Plot Targeting UFC Event in Washington, D.C. Federal authorities recently disrupted a suspected drone-based attack targeting the UFC America 250 event held. Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Hunting the Invisible: F-22’s New Sensor Era Begins Boeing’s highly modified 757 Flying Test Bed, known as “Catfish,” was recently spotted carrying a stealthy infrared sensor pod linked to the USAF’s F-22 Raptor 2.0 upgrade program... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Marauder–Blackbeard: Autonomous Hypersonic Strike by 2027 Saronic Technologies and Castelion Corporation have announced plans to demonstrate the launch of a hypersonic vehicle from an autonomous surface vessel by 2027... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Every Military on Earth Is WATCHING: The US Army Reinvents Its Main Battle Tank A CRS report explains the US Army’s M-1E3 Abrams modernization program, which is intended to replace incremental upgrades of the Abrams tank with a more... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Kuwait Gets a High-Tech Response to Iran’s Shahed Drones The US has approved a potential $1.98 billion Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait for advanced counter-drone systems and related support equipment. The package includes... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

How Ukraine’s Mid-Range Drones Are Strangling Russian Supply Lines Ukraine’s expanding mid-range drone campaign—roughly 20 to 200 km behind the front lines—has become one of the most significant but underappreciated shifts in the war... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Satellite Images Uncover Radical Chinese Submarine Satellite imagery has revealed a previously unknown large Chinese submarine at Shanghai’s Jiangnan Shipyard, drawing attention because it appears... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Directed Energy Weapon Downs 80 Drones in Major Trial Thales UK, working with Teledyne e2v, has announced successful April trials of its RapidDestroyer radio frequency directed energy weapon at Pershore, Gloucestershire... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Saronic Launches First Autonomous Marauder MUSV Saronic announced the launch of its first Marauder Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV), an autonomous ship designed for defense and commercial missions far from shore... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Jackal Cleared for Takeoff Northrop Grumman has successfully completed a key flight test for Jackal, its next-gen PSM, validating the readiness of its airframe, turbojet propulsion, navigation, and autopilot systems... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Freedom Eagle-1 Program Scales Up AeroVironment announced a $20.2 million government-backed expansion of its Huntsville, Alabama, facility to scale production of its Next-Generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Missile... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Hermeus Hits Mach 1.2 in Breakthrough Quarterhorse Test Flight Hermeus announced that its Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, reaching Mach 1.21 during its third test flight... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Crash, Fix, Relaunch: YFQ-42A Returns to the Sky General Atomics has resumed flight testing of its YFQ-42A CCA after a temporary pause caused by an April mishap shortly after takeoff. The issue was traced to an autopilot software error. Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Mass Drone Swarms From a Single Container DZYNE Technologies has unveiled Blitz, a next-generation expendable system designed for high-volume deployment and rapid adaptability in modern military operations... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

World’s First MQ-9B AEW Test Changes Air Defense Saab and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. successfully completed the first flight test of the LoyalEye airborne early warning (AEW) sensor on an unmanned MQ-9B aircraft... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

US Air Force Tests “Self-Healing Battlefield Communications System RTX subsidiary BBN Technologies has demonstrated a new self-healing communications system designed to keep military aircraft and ground forces connected... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Mach Expands Into Rockets and Hypersonics Defense startup Mach Industries has acquired rocket and hypersonic developer Exquadrum in a $50 million... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

SMASH Fire Control Systems Enhance Battlefield Counter-Drone Capabilities The SMASH 3000 is an AI-powered rifle-mounted fire control system that transforms standard assault rifles into precision targeting tools... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…

Thales and Schiebel Compete in Final Stage of Land ACP Framework Thales and its partner Schiebel have advanced to the final four contenders for Project NYX under the Land Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP) framework... Read more here: richardcyoung.com/terrorism/weap…