Weaponry & Related Product Manufacturing Industry Competitors

It did take a bunch of rocket scientists to come up with the idea for Aerojet-General. The company, a maker of missile propulsion systems, was founded by a professor at the California Institute of Technology and several of his colleagues....

Bullets?!! We don't need no stinkin' bullets -- not with the Buck Rogers technology of Applied Energetics (formerly Ionatron). The company is developing Laser Guided Energy (LGE) and Laser Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC) directed-energy weapons for sale to the US government....

It's no longer all about batteries for Arotech. The company has broadened its horizons to include use-of-force simulators and vehicle armor in addition to its line of zinc-air batteries and fuel cells. Arotech's FAAC and IES Interactive Training subsidiaries provide simulators, related software, and training for law enforcement and military entities....

BAE Systems Electronics & Integrated Solutions (E&IS) is a business unit of BAE Systems, Inc. E&IS' divisions include Electronic Warfare (radar warning and jamming, electronic warfare systems, electronic combat and self-protection systems); Network Systems (communications, navigation, and IT systems); Platform Solutions (aircraft flight and engine controls, cockpit displays, autopilots, vehicle management systems); and Sensor Systems (thermal weapons sights, THAAD missile defense seeker, laser and infrared sensors)....

BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, a subsidiary of BAE Systems, Inc. (formerly BAE SYSTEMS North America), is focused on weapons and technology. It includes three business lines: Ordnance Solutions (management and operation of Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kindsport, Tennessee), Systems Engineering Solutions (engineering and test services, program management support), and Integrated Technical Solutions (command, control, and communications systems and support services)....

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it -- combat, that is. And when they do, they need equipment. BlackHawk Products Group sells a broad range of tactical gear for those in the military and law enforcement. Products include vests and other apparel, holsters, knives, and weapon accessories, harnesses, and rappelling equipment....

BT Fuze Products (BTFP) ensures that shells, bombs, and missiles blow up...but only if and when they are supposed to. The days of lighting fuzes by hand and watching them burn down with growing drama are long gone; today's electronic, mechanical, and electro-mechanical fuzes are highly engineered products used to detonate tank, artillery, and mortar shells with precision timing....

Chemring has several subsidiaries, but none of them has much to do with chemicals or rings. Go figure. The company is largely about aerospace and defense countermeasures and marine and military electronics and pyrotechnics. Primary products include air, land, and naval countermeasures that defeat incoming missiles; marine safety electronics and pyrotechnics, including emergency beacons, radios, and emergency flares; and military pyrotechnics used for training purposes....

Esterline Defense Group, a unit of Esterline Technologies, makes ordnance and expendable countermeasures. Combustible ordnance products include mortar propellant containers and tank combustible cartridge casings; countermeasures include chaff, which fools radar, and flares, which draw off heat-seeking missiles....

Force Protection's vehicles protect military forces from blast forces. The company makes armored land vehicles designed to protect troops from landmines, bombs, and hostile fire. Force Protection's products include the 22-ton Buffalo, which is designed for mine-clearing operations, and the Cougar, a lighter-weight vehicle with similar armoring that can be used for route clearance support, urban patrol, and other activities....

Defense contractor General Dynamics brings it on by land, air, and sea. It operates in four areas: Information Systems & Technology (command and control systems), Marine Systems (warships and nuclear submarines), Combat Systems (tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, and munitions), and Aerospace (business jets)....

There's communications, then there's communications. Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC) helps defense companies accurately get their point across. A subsidiary of L-3 Communications, IEC makes ruggedized test instruments and missile tracking systems for ballistic missile programs such as the US Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) system....

Missile. Boom. Defense. Attack. That's not the acronym, but MBDA is one of the largest missile makers in the world. Jointly owned by BAE SYSTEMS and EADS (37.5% each) and Finmeccanica (25%), the company's products include a mind-boggling combination of air-to-air, air-to-ground, ground-to-air, anti-ship, anti-tank, submarine-launched, ship-launched, and cruise missile systems....

Why, when I was a kid, flyers dropped explosives by hand! Raytheon Missile Systems, a division of Raytheon Company, is a world leader in the production of offensive and defensive missile systems and related weapons used for air-to-ground, air-to-air, land, and naval combat....

You wouldn't want to hold a candle to Alliant Techsystems (ATK), maker of ammunition, smart bombs, and rocket propulsion systems. A leader in the production of solid propulsion rocket motors, ATK builds motors for space launch vehicles such as the Trident II and the Delta II....

Need to storm a beach? BAE Systems Land and Armaments has been making landing craft and armored vehicles since WWII. The BAE Systems subsidiary divides its operations into five business units. Armaments provides gun and launching systems as well as advanced munitions....

Chemring Energetics, formerly Leafield Group Ltd., has energy to burn. The company specializes in pyrotechnics and pyro-mechanical and electro-mechanical devices, rocket motors, gas generators, initiators, and actuators used for military and industrial safety systems, missile guidance, airborne weapons, military training and ceremonies, and demolition....

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that people aren't out to get you. If someone is out to get you, Defense Industries International can help your odds of getting through the encounter unscathed. The company's primary projectile-proof products include body armor, bulletproof vests, and bomb disposal suits as well as ballistic helmets, wall covers, and one-way windows....

Patton and Rommel would love General Dynamics Land Systems' (GDLS) products. A subsidiary of General Dynamics, the company makes tracked and wheeled armored vehicles and amphibious combat vehicles for the US military and international allies....

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems - Scranton Operations (formerly Chamberlain Manufacturing) sticks to its guns. The company, which was previously owned by Duchossois Industries, is a maker of large-caliber (105mm to 155mm) ammunition projectile bodies for military customers, chiefly the US Department of Defense....