Launched Effects Archives

An Area-I Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., March 4, 2020. (Courtesy photo provided by Yuma Proving Ground)

Army eyes modernized, long-range systems to bolster aircraft survivability

“We’ve got to be able to see and detect further out, and that’s what we’re doing. Everything that we do is … threat driven," said Col. Brock…

Oct 21, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

The Army’s Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Project Management Office, in collaboration with the U.S. Special Operations Command, executed a flight demonstration involving the first launch of the Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated Unmanned System (Altius) 700 air vehicle on Dec. 3, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (Army photo by Daniel Henke.)

SOCOM gearing up to assess air-launched kamikaze drones

U.S. Special Operations Command is looking for loitering munitions that can be dropped from a variety of aircraft in its inventory.

Feb 8, 2024 By Jon Harper

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman score awards for Army’s ‘launched effects’ initiative

The companies won other transaction agreements for the first phase of the Launched Effects program to mature payloads for infrared and electronic warfare.

Nov 29, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau