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Flight tests successfully completed for sea-skimming target missile of the Navy

Dulles, Usa - The programme development has been awarded to Orbital Sciences Corporation

Orbital Sciences said Tuesday that it successfully flight-tested the GQM-163A "Coyote" Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target (SSST) system for the United States Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) last Tuesday. The GQM-163A Coyote target missile design integrates a four-inlet, solid-fuel ducted rocket ramjet propulsion system into a compact missile airframe 18 feet long and 14 inches in diameter. Ramjet supersonic...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 63583
Rome, Italy, 05/20/2004 17:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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