Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

JCM: a single air-to-surface missile, three different platforms

Washington, USA – Compatibility tests for the new US guided rocket with the aircraft which is devoted to have started

Just a single air-to-surface missile will replace in US Army and US Navy both the AGM-114 Hellfires and the AGM-65 Mavericks. It deals with the Lockheed Martin Joint Common Missile (JCM), endowed with three guidance systems (IR, millimeter waves radar and semi-active laser) and destined to be deployed by multiple launchers on both the AH-64D Longbow Apache and the MH-60 Seahawk helicopters and the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 126362
Rome, Italy, 09/07/2005 14:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

DefenseLondon dismantles 14 CH-47 helicopters and entire Puma H-C2 fleet

Defense cuts to fill black holes. But Putin's threat of aggression looms

46 Watchkeeper Mk-1 drones also decommissioned. And the axe also falls on the forces of the Royal Navy more

DefenseFour Italian UNIFIL soldiers injured in southern Lebanon

Their conditions are not serious

A new attack this morning on the UNIFIL headquarters in southern Lebanon, after the one last Tuesday, when five soldiers from the UN Interposition Force were involved. The base was hit by rocket attacks,... more

DefenseTurkish Ucav Bayraktar TB3 PT2 conducts first carrier flight test

Lasted 46 minutes, then the re-landing on the same short runway of TCG "Anadolu" - VIDEO

The Bayraktar TB3 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) has successfully completed its first flight test from the deck of the Turkish Navy's amphibious assault ship "Anadolu", classified as an aircraft-helicopter... more