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L3Harris Showcases Helicopter-capable Cruise Missile at AUSA​

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L3Harris Showcases Helicopter-capable Cruise Missile at AUSA - Naval News

L3Harris showcased their Red and Green Wolf cruise missile at AUSA, seeking to fill a vital gap in fires in both weight class and cost. Red and Green Wolf offer drastically increased stand-off capability for rotary wing aviation
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Air Force Set to Evaluate New Industry Offerings for Low-Cost Missiles​

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Air Force to Evaluate New Industry Offerings for Low-Cost Missiles

The Air Force is poised to begin evaluating a new class of low-cost missiles needed to defeat future aerial threats.
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The FAMM program first emerged in the Air Force’s fiscal 2026 budget request. Prototyping activities include “integration and flight demonstrations of affordable and highly manufacturable small turbine engines, seekers/sensors, networked datalinks, collaborative autonomy behaviors, and ordnance (warhead/fuse),” according to budget documents. The documents also note plans to procure more than 3,000 cruise missiles for a total of $656.3 million—a per-unit cost of $218,000 per cruise missile—but did not include many details.
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New medium cost cruise missile WSM-1 and wing kit for Thunder ER which is basically JDAM ER.

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Dubai Airshow 2025: EDGE Halcon Expands Air-to-Ground Capabilities and Enhances Ground-Based Air Defense Systems - DEFCROS News

Halcon unveiled the Thunder ER and WSM-1 at the Dubai Airshow, enhancing air-to-ground capabilities and air defense systems.
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WSM-1 fits inside Jeniah bay apparently


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Most importantly, they have their own turbojet and turbofan line from 400 newton to 1200 newton to 5300 newton now. No more MTCR limitations with indigenous cruise missiles.

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The UAE company now plans to deliver the first X550 engine to test by the end of 2027 and launch series production a year later, Powertech CEO Marian Lubieniecki said in an interview at Dubai Airshow.
 
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Shield AI and Destinus Partner to Integrate Hivemind Across Platforms in Support of Ukraine and European Defense

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (November 19, 2025) — Shield AI and Destinus today announced a strategic partnership to integrate Hivemind, Shield AI’s mission autonomy software, across Destinus’ aerial platforms. Together, the companies are creating the first scalable, cross-platform autonomy...
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Shield AI and Destinus Partner to Integrate Hivemind Across Platforms in Support of Ukraine and European Defense​

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It is exceedingly rare for a single weapon type to alter a war. However Narwal would also be introduced along side ERAM, which is also to be provided in bulk. This is addition to the most recent Ukrainian domestic missile development.

It is quite possible that Ukraine could see a dramatic increase in medium range precision strike capability by spring.
 
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Josh_TN said:
It is exceedingly rare for a single weapon type to alter an alter a war. However Narwal would also be introduced along side ERAM, which is also to be provided in bulk. This is addition to the most recent Ukrainian domestic missile development.

It is quite possible that Ukraine could see a dramatic increase in medium range precision strike capability by spring.
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And Brakestop.
 
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And Brakestop.
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The performance specs and price point for that one do not seem particularly impressive. In outward appearance, it just looks like one of the Ukrainian weapons, and 30m does seem noteworthy nore the cost especially value oriented compared to ERAM or Ukrainian weapons (the latter of course is probably a local purchasing power math problem).

But every new munition stream adds mass.
 
Josh_TN said:
The performance specs and price point for that one do not seem particularly impressive. In outward appearance, it just looks like one of the Ukrainian weapons, and 30m does seem noteworthy nore the cost especially value oriented compared to ERAM or Ukrainian weapons (the latter of course is probably a local purchasing power math problem).

But every new munition stream adds mass.
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30m is probably INS only.
 
A KAB UMPB-5 glide bomb equipped with ECCM satellite navigation CRPA antennas.

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Сергій FLASH | Про технології

Ось так виглядає електроніка реактивного КАБ УМПБ-5. Активний висотомір і незвичайна CRPA антена з додатковими елементами
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JIATF 401 awards contract to Fortem Technologies to kick off Replicator 2​

JIATF 401 awards contract to Fortem Technologies to kick off Replicator 2 | InsideDefense.com

The Pentagon's Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has awarded a contract to Fortem Technologies' for two DroneHunter F700 unmanned aerial systems interceptors, the Pentagon announced today, with systems expected to be delivered by April.
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Bouncing Bomb?

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As opposed to the JDAM, which glides at a shallow angle to a point above the target and dives in the terminal stage, the UMPK kits do a glide straight to the target. So the impact is always going to be slower, at a more shallow angle.
It also allows Ukrainians to occasionally intercept them with machine guns, something you don't see happening to JDAMs.
 
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As opposed to the JDAM, which glides at a shallow angle to a point above the target and dives in the terminal stage, the UMPK kits do a glide straight to the target. So the impact is always going to be slower, at a more shallow angle.
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JDAM doesn't glide at all. JDAM-ER does.
I'd guess UMPK (unlike say far more elegant GROM) is just too crude to perform any significant maneuvering. But crude as it is(was?), it's a very straighforward solution to a problem, and on new stupidly long wings("UMPK-ER") it gets as much range gliding, as recently presented AASM XLR gets via turbojet ... while still being cheaper by an order and more producable by almost two orders of magnitude than a base one.
Elegant weapons come at a cost.
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It also allows Ukrainians to occasionally intercept them with machine guns, something you don't see happening to JDAMs.
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While technically possible, never seen such footage.
 
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It most certainly does. That's what the strakes are for, and why JDAM has a range of up to 15 miles from high altitude.
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Does it even matter?
If memory serves me right, mig-25s were used to throw dumb bombs to almost 30.
 

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