Recent photos (May 22, 2025) show a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle test-flying with up to 42 AGR-20 APKWS II 70mm guided ...

At least two Strike Eagles have been employed in the tests, equipped with four or six LAU-131 pods which would allow to carry ...

and design and test an ejectable pod for air drop,” the budget proposal read. Rocket-powered cargo delivery isn’t a new concept, and the Air Force confirmed that it was flirting with the idea in 2018.

(U.S. Air Force photo) The AGR-20 Advanced Precision ... Ukrainian airman loading an American-made Hydra 70 unguided rocket into a rocket pod of a Czech-delivered Mil Mi-24V helicopter.

"One way to think about it is that the pod or the weapon ... The Valkyrie's unique rocket-assisted takeoff system also gives it what Kratos and the Air Force call "runway independence." ...

The Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket had the "Mighty Mouse" nickname because it was small but powerful, just like the cartoon character. It could take down bombers.

The U.S. Air Force will test a “rocket factory in a box” made by a New Mexico startup in hopes of being able to 3D-print missile energetics. The technology could allow the military to get ...

The contracts fall under a program headed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, simply called “Rocket Cargo.” And it’s one of the Air Force Department’s four “Vanguard Programs,” which ...

Aviation Week editors discuss Northrop Grumman’s exit from the U.S. Air Force’s competition to replace ... independent provider of missile and rocket propulsion in the United States defense ...

Fearing it would run out of fuel and crash in a densely populated area of the city, the Navy called on the Air Force for help ... Mouse 2.75-inch rockets per pod. The aircraft caught up with ...

the AIR-2A Genie air-to-air rocket weapons system was never stored or maintained at McChord Air Force Base (now JBLM-McChord Field).” “There was a unit in San Francisco that was flying F-89 ...