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Lockheed Receives Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Contract From DARPA
Lockheed Martin has received a $71 million Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) modification contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct air- and surface-launched flight tests and other risk reduction activities. Under this contract, an additional air-launched LRASM flight test will be conducted from a B-1B in 2013. There are already two [...]
Taiwan Tests New Anti-Ship Missile: Report
Taiwan tested its longest range ship-to-ship missile within a month of China putting its first aircraft carrier into service, a report said today. Dubbed an “aircraft carrier killer”, the missile has a range of 400 kilometres (250 miles) and is capable of achieving Mach 3.0, or triple the speed of sound, the Taipei-based United Daily [...]
BrahMos to Test Submarine-Launch Missile by Year-End
BrahMos, the Russian-Indian supersonic cruise missile joint venture, is to test-fire their anti-ship missile from a submarine platform by year-end, the Russian partner NPO Mashninostroyenie said Friday. “We need a test-launch by the end of the year,” said the company’s Deputy General Director Alexander Dergachev. “A decision will be made on whether the weapon can [...]
US Army, Navy Demo JLENS’ Ability to Defeat Anti-ship Cruise Missile
A recent U.S. Army and Navy test has proved that the Raytheon JLENS can integrate with defensive systems currently in the U.S. Navy’s inventory to provide, for the first time, overland cruise missile defense from the sea. During the test, a JLENS’ fire-control radar acquired and tracked a surrogate anti-ship cruise missile target. The track [...]
Lockheed Martin Completes First LRASM Captive Carriage Test
Lockheed Martin’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) sensor suite recently completed its first flight during a captive carry flight test off the coast of northwest Florida using a modified Sabreliner business jet. The objectives of the flight test included detecting, classifying and recognizing targets. Conducted at various airspeeds and altitudes, the flight tests exceeded all [...]
Exocet MM40 Successfully Test-Fired With Its New Brazilian Motor
The Brazilian Navy has successfully carried out a firing trial of an Exocet MM40 missile, equipped with a motor developed, produced and certified by Avibras in partnership with MBDA. This is the first time that the Brazilian Navy has carried out such a test which represents the country’s autonomy in obtaining anti-ship missile motors which, [...]
Iran mass producing anti-ship cruise missile: TV
Iran has begun mass production of an anti-ship cruise missile, state television’s website said on Saturday. The Zafar missile, as it is dubbed in the report, “is a short-range, anti-ship cruise missile capable of destroying small- and medium-sized targets with high precision.” It can be mounted on speed boats and other light vessels, can withstand [...]
BAE Systems Secures Anti-Ship Missile Defence Upgrade Contract
BAE Systems has been awarded an AUD $270M contract to upgrade the seven remaining Royal Australian Navy ANZAC class frigates, with the Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) capability already implemented on the first of class, HMAS Perth. The new contract follows the successful upgrade of HMAS Perth earlier this year which was completed on time and [...]
Northrop Upgrades Enhance RAN Frigate Anti-Ship Missile Defence Systems
System upgrades provided by Northrop Grumman into the ANZAC Class frigate HMAS Perth helped optimize the performance of the ship’s Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) system during recent sea trials conducted by the Royal Australian Navy. Northrop Grumman supplied equipment containing a military-grade Global Positioning System (GPS) that was integrated into the Navigation Data Distribution Systems [...]
