Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) Achieves Major Milestone

FIRST AARGM DEVELOPMENTAL LIVE FIRING SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATES PRECISION LONG RANGE TIME CRITICAL STRIKE CAPABILITY

Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy team of PMA-242, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division -- China Lake, and the Italian Air Force recently conducted the first Developmental Test (DT) firing of an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) from an F/A-18 aircraft on the China Lake test ranges on 25 May 2007.

The test firing confirmed the effective integration of AARGM with the F/A-18 aircraft and the continued progress of fielding a long-range, precision strike capability against a wide array of time critical targets.

The missile successfully achieved safe separation from the aircraft, navigated over an extended range to the designated target location, and guided to a direct hit. The successful flight test met all test objectives.

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