Marines Fire Anti-Ship Missile from Back of Unmanned Truck to Hit Target at Sea
The Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System can launch naval strike missiles from the back of a modified Joint Light Tactical Vehicle to destroy targets on land or at sea. (U.S. Navy)
29 Apr 2021
Marines scored a direct hit in a first-ever live-fire test in which they launched a Navy missile from the back of an unmanned tactical vehicle to strike a surface target at sea.
The Marine Corps has combined two existing technologies to produce a deadly new way to hit targets offshore. Coined NMESIS, the Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System can launch naval strike missiles from the back of a modified Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV, to destroy targets on land or at sea.
Update: US Air Force s ARRW fails first booster vehicle flight test
08 April 2021
by Pat Host
The US Air Force (USAF)/Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) conventional hypersonic glide weapon prototype failed its first booster vehicle flight test on 5 April, according to a service statement.
The ARRW failed to complete its launch sequence and did not deploy from its Boeing B-52H Stratofortress heavy bomber carriage aircraft. The B-52H flew over the Point Mugu Sea Range near California, intending to fire the ARRW booster test vehicle. Instead, the weapon returned with the B-52H to Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California.
Air Force hypersonic missile fails to detach from plane during test in California Updated: 3 hours ago
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Print article WASHINGTON - A Tuesday test mission over the military’s Point Mugu Sea Range near Los Angeles was supposed to demonstrate the U.S. Air Force’s unrivaled technological prowess. Late Tuesday morning, a 1950s-era B-52 bomber took off from Edwards Air Force Base carrying a newly-developed missile, called the ARRW, which is designed to evade missile defense systems while flying more than five times the speed of sound. But the next-generation weapon could not accomplish a critical step: detaching from the wing of the plane.
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