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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Missile Mystery

Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) |Lockheed Martin is making an aggressive pitch for its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), a maritime-strike version of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range (JASSM-ER) that it builds for the USAF.

Although LRASM is still a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstration project, Lockheed Martin says that it could be operational as an air-launched weapon as soon as 2016, with a vertically launched shipboard version following two years later.

Lockheed Martin briefed the project at the Air Force Association show near Washington on Tuesday, because the USAF is already involved in the project -- a B-1B will be the test platform and the concept is important in terms of the joint USAF-Navy Air-Sea Battle concept.

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