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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Lockheed Martin JASSM-ER Test Flights Highlight Outstanding Development Effort

JASSMLockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range (JASSM-ER) recently flew two successful test flights at White Sands Missile Range, NM, increasing the program’s success rate to 91 percent in 11 flights.

The live 2,000-pound class missiles, released from B-1B bombers, effectively navigated to and destroyed their intended targets.

The primary flight test objectives were to demonstrate end-to-end system performance while exercising the missile’s alternate terminal engagement profile and Time-on-Target (TOT) mode: the ability to control time of flight to engage time critical targets.

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