A Royal Navy Wildcat of 815 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) has successfully and independently shot down a Banshee target drone using the Martlet missile in the air-to-air role. Taking place at the ...

Defense companies Leonardo and Thales have successfully tested the Martlet Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM). The Thales-built missile being developed for the Royal Navy was fired during air ...

The Royal Navy’s AW159 Wildcat helicopters completed a new round of trials with the Martlet and Sea Venom air-to-surface missiles. The month-long campaign saw the helicopter operating from RFA ...

A Martlet missile was dropped from the Wildcat and in 0.3 seconds accelerated to Mach 1.5. Each Wildcat can carry 20 of the laser-sensor missiles, making them suitable for handling multiple ...

The force fired a Martlet missile from a Wildcat combat helicopter to take down a Banshee drone flying at hundreds of miles an hour over the Bristol Channel. The trial, which recently took place ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.