June 5, 2026: Last April the American navy conducted exercises off the Florida coast to test the use of surface and aerial drones to detect drug smuggling speed boats. Once alerted, MH-60 helicopters ...

The US Air Force integrated BAE Systems’ APKWS II guided rockets onto F-15E fighters in just nine days, dramatically accelerating deployment to counter the growing threat of enemy drone swarms. The US ...

The dual mode APKWS II rocket with both IR and laser guidance adds an improved Counter-UAS capability to fighter aircraft tasked to efficiently and affordably stop drone attacks. BAE Systems has ...

BAE Systems has received an initial order for 11,000 laser-guidance kits worth $322 million, with a maximum contract value of $1.7 billion, to equip the U.S. military and partners. BAE Systems ...

BAE Systems has secured a contract worth $1,743,038,000 to produce up to 55,000 units of the APKWS II laser-guided rocket, the same munition that serves as the interceptor for the VAMPIRE ...

Military contractor BAE Systems has developed an improved version of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS). The upgrade will increase the APKWS laser-guided rockets strike range by up to ...

Effective counter-UAS test strikes pave the way for international fielding HUDSON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) has successfully tested BAE ...

BAE Systems has demonstrated the performance of its APKWS laser-guided rocket during test firings involving a version of subsidiary Malloy Aeronautics’ T-150 quadcopter uncrewed air system (UAS). BAE ...

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HUDSON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems completed additional ground-to-air test firings to prove the effectiveness of 70mm rockets guided by APKWS® guidance kits against Class-2 unmanned aerial ...

HUDSON, N.H., Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (LON: BA) recently delivered its 100,000th APKWS® laser-guidance kit, marking a major production milestone as it continues providing U.S. armed ...