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    A U.S. Marine aviation ordnance system technician loads a 2.75-inch rocket configured with Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II into an LAU-68 F/A rocket launcher at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Ariz., last March.
    John Keller
    Sept. 17, 2025
    The APKWS add-on kit turns a standard unguided 2.75-inch 70 millimeter rocket into a precision laser-guided munition for low-cost surgical strike.

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    A Navy aviation ordnanceman secures an AIM-9X air-to-air missile to an F/A-18F Super Hornet during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in 2024.
    A Navy F-35 attack jet conducts tests to certify the carrier variant of the fighter aircraft for carrying the AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).
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    The Greensea Systems Bayonet 250 is for explosive ordnance disposal in littoral environments in shallow water and surf zones. It provides autonomous capabilities for mine and explosive threat neutralization.
    Desktop trainers display naval aviation's new carrier-based joint air training program in a lab at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division near its Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in 2024.
    This artist's concept depicts the DARPA Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program to develop tactical autonomy for multi-ship beyond-visual-range air combat missions, and to enable crewed and uncrewed combat aerial vehicles to work together.
    The Burke-class destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a standard missile 2 (SM-2) from the forward vertical launching system while operating in the Philippine Sea last spring.
    A NATO tactical director operates inside a NATO AWACS aircraft during a military exercise last June.
    John Keller
    Sept. 4, 2025
    STARS is intended to blend research and fielded systems to ensure that advanced RF and microwave technologies do not remain stuck in laboratories.
    An Army National Guard cryptologic linguist trains in 2022 on a new tactical dismounted electronic warfare and signals intelligence (TDEWS) system at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.
    John Keller
    Sept. 3, 2025
    TROUT project focuses on rapidly fieldable real-time signal processing prototypes to analyze RF transmissions automatically for time-critical alerts.
    A 3rd Infantry Division Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle drives off of a barge during a wet-gap crossing exercise on Fort Stewart, Ga., in 2021.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The AMPV armored combat vehicle has several electronic subsystems that involve communications, situational awareness, and command and control.
    Maine Air National Guard airmen deploy the MUOS antennae to establish radio communications via satellite link in Montenegro in May 2023.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The MUOS system uses a 3G wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) cell phone-like service network architecture and geosynchronous satellites.
    The Burke-class Flight III destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) during its acceptance trials in May 2023. DDG 125 is the first Burke-class destroyer built in the Flight III configuration.
    John Keller
    Aug. 22, 2025
    The AN/USQ-82(V) handles surface warship machinery-, damage-, and steering-control systems as well as displays and interior communications alarms.