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What others posted is correct.
But how do you get such job without military background? Not only that, but a multitude of positions require security clearing. If you are air-force of navy veteran, it helps getting one.
What others posted is correct.
But how do you get such job without military background? Not only that, but a multitude of positions require security clearing. If you are air-force of navy veteran, it helps getting one.
Being a great engineering student who excels at their field is a great way, coupled with an internship with a weapons manufacturer. Usually those lead to satisfying the need for a security clearance and off you go. Sure, you won't be setting the requirements but you'll actually be building the weapons.
Most militray weapons systems are developed, designed and produced by civilians. The militray only provided the consulting for the system under development. As such, the ability to work on a weapons system depends on the needs of that weapon. Each weapon is comprised of multiple systems with teams working on their respective section. You will have individuals who dea with aerodynamics, others electrical, others mechanical, and some in materials. Those working on the casing (materials) may be experts in metals, plastics, composits, etc. The guidance will have computer engineers, programmers, communications engineers, etc. You will have mechanical engineers working on the release system.
The days of some one person designing a complex weapon has given way to defense contractors constantly thinking up and proto-typing new systems. All the people working on the project can be called weapons engineers, but they are just skilled ina specific discipline.
What others posted is correct.
But how do you get such job without military background? Not only that, but a multitude of positions require security clearing. If you are air-force of navy veteran, it helps getting one.
I would bet my paycheck that the vast majority of weapons and weapons systems designers don't have any military experience to speak of; it really doesn't mean anything. As noted above, being an excellent engineer, and doing the right internships and making the right connections is most likely to get you employed by a government contractor who does this type of thing.
Most militray weapons systems are developed, designed and produced by civilians. The militray only provided the consulting for the system under development. As such, the ability to work on a weapons system depends on the needs of that weapon. Each weapon is comprised of multiple systems with teams working on their respective section. You will have individuals who dea with aerodynamics, others electrical, others mechanical, and some in materials. Those working on the casing (materials) may be experts in metals, plastics, composits, etc. The guidance will have computer engineers, programmers, communications engineers, etc. You will have mechanical engineers working on the release system.
The days of some one person designing a complex weapon has given way to defense contractors constantly thinking up and proto-typing new systems. All the people working on the project can be called weapons engineers, but they are just skilled ina specific discipline.
Very true. A division of my employer works on very specific parts of military contracts; there are engineers who devote their lives to hydraulic fluids, oil, or fuel, etc., while another team 1,000 miles away is looking at braking systems (or whatever). When I worked in a factory we plated a single, specific part for navy torpedoes.
One of my best friends is an engineer at Raytheon with a very high clearance. He cannot even comment on the stuff he is working on for the military. He has never been in the military.
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