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To replace the ALCM, the USAF planned to award a contract for the development of the new Long-Range Stand-Off weapon in 2015. [6] Unlike the AGM-86, the LRSO will be carried on multiple aircraft. The LRSO program is to develop a weapon that can penetrate and survive integrated air defense systems and prosecute strategic targets.
LRASM-A is a subsonic cruise missile based on Lockheed Martin's 500 nm-range AGM-158 JASSM-ER; Lockheed Martin was awarded initial development contracts. [28] LRASM-B was planned to be a high-altitude supersonic missile along the lines of the Indo-Russian BrahMos, but it was cancelled in January 2012. Captive carry flight tests of LRASM sensors ...
The AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (AGM-158 JASSM) is a low detection standoff air-launched cruise missile developed by Lockheed Martin for the United States Armed Forces. [7] It is a large, stealthy long-range weapon with a 1,000-pound (450 kg) armor piercing warhead.
US Marines added a new long-range cruise missile to their arsenal. The AGM-158A joint air-to-surface standoff missile was loaded on an F/A-18 Hornet in late August.
Zelenskyy already has western-supplied, long-range precision weapons – the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, and British Storm Shadow and French SCALP missiles. ATACMS have a range of up ...
A Storm Shadow cruise missile is on display during the Paris Air Show (AP) ... Washington’s decision to let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with long-range U.S. missiles could lead to World War ...
Developed from the AGM-84E SLAM (Standoff Land Attack Missile, itself developed by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems from the McDonnell Douglas Harpoon anti-ship missile), the SLAM-ER is capable of attacking land and sea targets medium to long range (over 155 nautical miles/270 km maximum). [7]
[63] [64] On 6 March 2017, North Korea launched four missiles from Tongchang-ri, [65] a known long-range missile site at 7:36 a.m. local time, one of which landed in the Sea of Japan, with the remaining three missiles landing in Japan's economic zone. [66] A fifth North Korean missile failed to launch. [67]