US Army extends Joint Air-to-Ground Missile program with LockMart
Source: Lockheed Martin, 22-Aug-12
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] received a $64 million contract from the U.S. Army to extend the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) Technology Development program. The 27-month extended Technology Development program will include design, test and demonstration phases for the JAGM guidance section. The JAGM guidance section includes the seeker, dome and housing. “Lockheed Martin’s JAGM guidance [...]
Lockheed Martin’s DAGR Successfully Engages Moving Target in Apache Demonstration
Source: Lockheed Martin, 09-May-12
Lockheed Martin’s Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR)successfully tracked and engaged a moving target in a recent demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. “DAGR hit a moving target from 3.5 kilometers,” said Hady Mourad, DAGR program director in Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control business. “Defeating high-value targets on the move is a critical capability, and demonstrating [...]
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System aces helicopter testing
Source: BAE Systems, 12-Nov-11
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps recently successfully fired the first shots of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS) from a UH-1Y helicopter, in preparation for fielding in 2012. The successful shots, which took place at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California, Sept. 9-13, mark the start of APKWS [...]
Raytheon completes Talon rocket testing on Apache
Source: Raytheon, 13-Sep-11
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) completed additional testing of the TALON Laser-Guided Rocket on the AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter. Raytheon and Emirates Advanced Investment Group are developing TALON under a cooperative development effort. TALON met or exceeded all Raytheon test objectives, which included firing from hovering and moving platforms and engaging targets from short (1.2 km/.74 [...]
India short-lists MBDA’s PARS 3LR guided missile system
Source: MBDA, 23-Jun-11
MBDA´s PARS 3 LR guided missile system has been short listed for the Indian Army helicopter future air-to-ground requirement. MBDA Deutschland has delivered proposals for its PARS 3 LR multi-target, long range weapon system for HAL’s Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH DHRUV) and for two attack helicopters, the KAMOV KA-52 and the MIL MI-28. Within the [...]
Lockheed Martin demos JAGM Tri-Mode Seeker against moving sea targets
Source: Lockheed Martin, 08-Jun-11
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) tri-mode seeker successfully acquired and tracked multiple moving maritime vessels during recent high-speed, captive flight tests. The tests occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, off the shore of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., against multiple maritime targets, including a Revenge Advanced Composites (RAC) state-of-the-art, low-signature, high-speed patrol craft. The RAC [...]
Raytheon-Boeing team responds to call for JAGM Joint Air-To-Ground Missile
Source: Raytheon, 08-Jun-11
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) submitted its proposal for the U.S. Army and Navy’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile competition and responded as a prime contractor. Raytheon is teamed with The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) for the JAGM program. Raytheon and Boeing have proven capabilities that were showcased in the JAGM technology demonstration phase. The team enters the [...]
MBDA’s PARS-3LR guided missile successfully tested on German Tiger
Source: MBDA, 24-May-11
Three firings, three hits! This is the impressive score of the test firing exercise conducted with the PARS 3 LR guided antitank missile system. For the first time, the test firings with warheads were carried out using a Tiger support helicopter of the German Army. All guided missiles hit their targets at the optimum point [...]
Turkey develops missile for T129 helicopters
Source: Hurriyet Daily News, 23-May-11
Turkey’s first active laser-guided missile, the “Cirit,” has been receiving attention from other countries as well, Turkish executives have told the Anatolia news agency.
First contract for Thales’ Lightweight Multi-role Missile
Source: Thales, 06-Apr-11
Thales UK and the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have today announced an innovative approach to contracting under the principles of Team Complex Weapons (TCW). The two parties have agreed to ‘re-role’ previously contracted budgets to facilitate the full-scale development, series production and introduction of the Lightweight Multi-role Missile (LMM) into service for UK Armed [...]
Multipurpose Hellfire II ‘Romeo’ Strikes Target, Completes Proof-of-Principle Flight Tests
Source: Lockheed Martin, 29-Mar-11
The U.S. Army’s Joint Attack Munition Systems (JAMS) Project Office and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully fired a multipurpose AGM 114R HELLFIRE II “Romeo” missile with a live warhead and penetrated a brick-over-block target in its sixth proof-of-principle (POP) test. The flight test, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., demonstrated the Romeo’s enhanced software capability [...]
Hurricane-I missile pod developed for Peruvian Army Mi-17s
Source: HeliHub.com, 27-Jan-11
Casanave Industrial Development, in association with the 1st Army Aviation Brigade of Peru, has developed a missle pod system for the MI-17-1B The system, called Hurricane-I is operational on Mi-17 helicopters assigned to counter-insurgency operations in the valley of the Ene and Apurimac rivers. It includes the HMP-250 Helicopter Machine-gun Pods made by Herstal in [...]
Middle East EC635 operator using Denel weapon systems
27-Jan-11
Eurocopter will not, at the customer’s request, reveal the identity of the country nor the number of helicopters being acquired. The programme involves the supply of Eurocopter EC635 light attack helicopters, fitted with weapons systems equipped with 20 mm cannons, unguided rockets and guided missiles.
Denel’s Mokopa missile ready for market
Source: Times Live, 26-Jan-11
Denel Dynamics says the Mokopa is a precision-strike, multi-purpose 10 km plus surface-target missile, that can be fired from the ground, helicopter and fighter jet.
Lockheed Martin’s JAGM missile hits target from 6KM
Source: Lockheed Martin, 23-Nov-10
Lockheed Martin scored a hit on a main battle tank at sixkilometers in a company-funded, multiple-mission firing of its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The complex flight test at White Sands Missile Range, NM, demonstrated the ability of the imaging infrared (I2R) sensor in the missile’s cooled tri-mode seeker to lock on before launch at extended [...]
Laser-based missile defence for helicopters under development
Source: University of Michigan, 04-Sep-10
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company. “Battlefield terrain in places like Afghanistan and Iraq can be so rough that our troops have often had to rely on helicopters, and they can [...]
ATK Awarded $32M Contracts to Produce Hellfire II Rocket Motors and Warheads
Source: ATK, 30-Apr-10
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has received follow-on production contracts valued at $32 million to produce rocket motors and warheads for the precision-strike laser-guided HELLFIRE® II missile. ATK will manufacture approximately 7,100 rocket motors and 2,200 metal augmented charge (MAC) warheads at its manufacturing facility in Rocket Center, West Virginia. The contracts were awarded by Lockheed [...]
Iran boasts of new Apache-killer weapon
Source: Defence Talk, 03-Feb-10
Iran has developed a new weapon to shoot down U.S. Apache attack helicopters, the Iranian Fars news agency has reported.
AH-1W Cobra crew complete integrated testing of APKWS – Operational assessment follows
Source: BAE Systems, 02-Feb-10
Aviators from the U.S. Marine Corps completed the integrated test phase of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) program Jan. 5, firing five rounds against stationary and moving targets. All five shots hit their intended targets within 2 meters of the laser designator’s spot. In the final series of shots in integrated testing, five [...]
US Army fires Talon Laser-Guided Rocket Rounds from OH-58D
Source: Raytheon, 30-Dec-09
The TALON LGR rounds were launched from a U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and hit targets at 3,500 meters (2.17 miles). This exceeded accuracy requirements for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II program.
ATK and Elbit Systems Conduct Successful Flight Test of GATR From OH-58D Kiowa Warrior
Source: ATK, 02-Dec-09
Alliant Techsystems and Elbit Systems have successfully conducted flight tests of the Guided Advanced Tactical Rocket (GATR) from a U.S. Army rotary-wing helicopter: the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.
UK and France start work on advanced naval anti-ship missile
Source: Rotorhub, 10-Sep-09
The UK and French governments have announced the start of a joint Assessment Phase to develop systems and technologies for a new helicopter-launched anti-surface missile.
Eurocopter successfully leads the first firing campaign of the HAD Tiger using the Spike missile
Source: Eurocopter, 12-Sep-08
Eurocopter successfully leads the first firing campaign of the HAD Tiger using the Spike missile
