The Army has renewed its investment in the Hydra-70 family of 2.75-inch aviation rockets. June 30 brought the signing of a four-year production contract with General Dynamics Armament and ...

The APKWS II, designated as AGR-20 by the U.S. DoD, consists of a Hydra 70 mm unguided rocket with the addition of a laser guidance section between the 10-pound high-explosive warhead at the front ...

The Hydra rockets were supplied with the laser-guided Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) kits, however this variant so far has only been seen in use with ground launch platforms. The ...

Here, soldiers stand with an MLRS M270 A2 mobile rocket system during a NATO exercise on Nov. 20, 2024, near Heinu, ... For example, the Army’s Hydra rocket costs roughly $45,000 per system.

Hydra-70 rocket systems are a range of 2.75-inch, or 70 mm, unguided air-to-surface rockets, described by defense manufacturer General Dynamics as "a lethal and lightweight weapon system with ...

APKWS is a laser-guided Hydra 70mm rocket system designed and manufactured by BAE Systems. L3's VAMPIRE kit includes a four-tube launcher linked with a mast mounted EO/IR sensor ball and ...

Armament: 30mm M230 chaingun, 12.7mm GAU-19 gatling guns, 7.62mm miniguns, M261 rocket pods, Hellfire missiles, TOW anti-tank missiles, Stinger missiles 1. AH-64 Apache ...

BAE Systems has unveiled a new APK (Advanced Precision Kit) for the 70 mm Hydra rockets as a part of the APKWS II (Advanced Kill Precision Weapon System II) at the Sea Air Space 2025 conference in ...