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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

U.S. testing tiny guided missile

Sheila Stange, quality officer in the NAWCWD Weapons Prototyping Division, explains how a model of the Spike missile was made in the Rapid Prototyping LabThe U.S. military says it is moving ahead with tests of a 5-pound guided missile the size of a loaf of French bread.

Military researchers are also preparing to test the 2-foot-long Spike missile, which is about one-fourth the size of the world's previous smallest missile, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

The Spike tests, to be conducted at the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake, Calif., could mark a milestone in the development of weapons that can be carried by unmanned aircraft and make more precise and powerful strikes, the newspaper said.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete28/4/09 07:17

    Looks like such a small missile with a small warhead is designed to kill individual al Qaeda leaders in the open while minimizing other casualties.

    The existing Hellfire is too big - often killing too many.

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