LASM on target for naval surface fire support

Article Abstract:

The US Navy has approved the remanufacture of existing Standard Missile SM-2 Block II rounds to a new Land Attack Standard Missile (LASM) configuration. The Standard Missile Copmpany (SMCo) has endorsed the remanufacture strategy in order to provide a low-cost, low-risk solution to the US Navy's fire-support requirements on several regards. The US Navy intends to remanufacture 1,200 units of SM-2 Block II rounds from its existing inventory to the LASM standard, and the resulting missile is expected by SMCo and the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, to have an average unit cost of $291,000.

Air-to-Ground Missiles, Air to surface missiles, Article, LASM, SM-2 Block II

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Point break

Article Abstract:

A new generation of ship defense missiles are being developed to keep pace with advances in antiship technology. Among other enhancements, new ship defense systems have longer range and expanded engagement envelopes, an ability to engage crossing targets and phased array target illumination for targeting multiple simultaneous threats. Side-by-side with the development of new systems is an effort to radically upgrade point-defense missile systems dating as far back as the 1970s.

Surface-to-Air Missiles

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Hellfire offers anti-ship option

Article Abstract:

Lockheed Martin Corp is offering the AGM-114M missile, a Hellfire variant with a new bus that allows the missile to be fitted with an anti-ship warhead. The blast fragmentation warhead on the Hellfire II AGM-114M is supplied by Orlando Technology Inc. Lockheed Martin has already received orders for 100 AGM-114Ms from the US Navy and 80 from Turkey for use with its S-70B Seahawk helicopters.

Antiship Missiles

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