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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Smallest and Most Precise Missile In the US Arsenal


At only 2.75 inches in diameter, the Direct Attack Guided Rocket—DAGR, pronounced dagger—is designed to be the bread-and-butter air-to-surface weapon in the US arsenal.

It's compatible with every flying thing, very low cost, laser-guided, extremely precise and extraordinarily deadly.

The secret is its elegant simplicity and delayed fuzing of its 10-pound warhead, which according to Lockheed Martin "increases the DAGR rocket's lethality and reduces collateral damage."

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