Key Points and Summary - Forget low-altitude carpet bombing—the B-52 bomber's future is as a standoff “missile truck” that slings precision weapons from outside S-400/S-500 envelopes. This might allow ...

You can't talk about modern warfare doctrine without fitting air-launched cruise missiles into the equation. Modern super high-tech cruise missiles can skim across the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds ...

The Pentagon has selected Raytheon over Lockheed Martin to develop a new stealthy air-launched nuclear-tipped cruise missile called the Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) missile. The LRSO will allow Air ...

The debate over the Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) weapon continues to heat up both in Congress and within the nuclear weapons community. The LRSO is an essential component of a credible future U.S.

Lockheed Martin may have lost out on designing America's next-generation ICBM, but the company has been selected to help replace the vintage AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile. The US$900 million US ...

“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” Mark Twain is reported to have said. Two years ago, also at War on the Rocks, Elbridge Colby responded forcefully to an op-ed calling for the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But for a short window of time, the United States seemed to be in need of a heavy-payload aircraft that had enough endurance to cross entire oceans to engage enemy ...