Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control has carried out an initial flight-test demonstration of a prototype beyond-visual-range weapons datalink in development for its AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile. The company also confirms that it is studying alternate warheads to widen maritime strike options for the missile including the use of submunitions and for an “agent defeat” payload to destroy chemical and biological weapons stocks.
A total of 21 flights of the L-3 Communications-developed prototype datalink were conducted by Lockheed for Eglin AFB, Florida last November using an airborne missile surrogate equipped with production-standard JASSM control avionics. Flight control was conducted from the Eglin command and control (C2) test facility.
“The C2 test facility provided both valid and invalid retargeting messages and abort commands,” says Lockheed. “The weapon surrogate responded correctly to all commands [and] provided in-flight tracking messages and bomb hit indication data on all test runs.”
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