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Saturday, May 14, 2011
US Navy produces smart, cheap 6kg fire+forget missile
US military boffins have added cheap "fire and forget" autonomous seeker heads to basic, lightweight dumb rockets of a type which can be fired in large numbers.
By seriously reducing the size and cost of smart weapons, this development is yet another big step towards changing the way wars are fought.
The project in question is called Low-Cost Imaging Terminal Seeker (LCITS), and has seen various US initiatives feed into efforts by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to add fire-and-forget homing capability to the 2.75-inch/70mm rockets carried by various aircraft.
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