The American M142 HIMARS has practically become synonymous with modern precision rocket artillery. The compact wheeled launcher can fire both guided rockets of ...

The S-500 Prometheus is usually described through an impressive set of specifications: hundreds of kilometers of engagement range, the ability to intercept ...

A short line in Japan’s fiscal 2027 defense budget request may significantly change how we understand one of the country’s most important new air-launched ...

In late August 2026, the U.S. Navy announced the successful test of a weapon that, at first glance, hardly looks like a technological sensation. At the Point ...

For more than a decade, Russia’s 3M22 Zircon has been described in essentially the same way: a sea-launched hypersonic cruise missile capable of reaching ...

The FIM-92 Stinger has become one of those weapons that outlived the era for which it was originally designed. When the first production missiles entered U.S. ...

Air-defense missiles are normally built around speed. The faster an interceptor accelerates, the less time the target has to react, the farther away the ...

In August 2026, a rather unusual first flight took place over the Baltic Sea. A small jet-powered uncrewed aircraft took off, flew just over 20 kilometers, and ...

The U.S. inventory of air-to-air weapons is becoming increasingly crowded. The AIM-120 AMRAAM remains the primary medium- and long-range air-to-air missile. ...

For the past two decades, hypersonic weapons have followed a fairly straightforward development philosophy: maximum speed, maximum range, highly sophisticated ...

At first glance, this is one of the simplest types of modern air-launched weapon. An aircraft releases a bomb, its wings deploy, the guidance system corrects ...

A conventional cruise missile usually receives the coordinates of its target before launch. From that point on, its task is relatively straightforward: follow ...