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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Guided rockets set to arm US A-10s and Harriers


Precision-guided rockets could be added to the weapons load-out of the US Air Force's Fairchild A-10 and the US Marine Corps' Boeing AV-8B Harrier II strike aircraft under a proposal led by the US Navy.

The USN soon plans to launch a joint concept technology demonstration to add a BAE Systems guided rocket called the advanced precision kill weapon system (APKWS II) to both aircraft.

Plans for the demonstration were revealed in a navy acquisition notice posted on 4 January. This says that the service intends to buy 50 guided rockets from the APKWS II programme for use by the AV-8B and A-10.

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