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US Army invites proposals for Hellfire successor
The main advantage of the new missile over the Hellfire will be its dual-mode seeker, adding millimeter-wave (MMW) radar guidance to the Hellfire’s semi-active laser (SAL) guidance. The user can select the missile’s effect from the cockpit, setting the missile’s tandem, shaped charge warhead to deliver armor piercing or blast fragmentation effect.
The US Army has released a Request for Proposals for the Engineering (EMD) and development of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) – new air/ground missile designed to replace the current air-launched BGM-71 TOW, AGM-114 Hellfire and AGM-65 Maverick missiles. The US Army will offer the winner options for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), toward fulfilling the Army and Navy plan to buy thousands JAGM missiles. The Army that has published the RFP in January 2015 plans to award the contract in August this year.
The main advantage of the new missile over the Hellfire will be its dual-mode seeker, adding millimeter-wave (MMW) radar guidance to the Hellfire’s semi-active laser (SAL) guidance. The user can select the missile’s effect from the cockpit, setting the missile’s tandem, shaped charge warhead to deliver armor piercing or blast fragmentation effect. This capability adds fire-and-forget engagement modes to the weapon, significantly increasing the JAGM user survivability against threat defenses in GPS denied and austere communications environments.
The new missile consists of a newly developed Guidance Section (GS) mated to the existing HELLFIRE Romeo backend (motor, warhead and associated electronics). Compatible with the current Hellfire AGM-114R, JAGM will be used with AH-64D/E Apache and AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters and MQ-1C Gray Eagle and MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems.
JAGM’s target sets include moving and stationary armor, air defense units, patrol craft, artillery, transporter erector/launchers, radar sites and C2 nodes in addition to bunkers and other structures in urban and complex terrain.
JAGM can engage multiple stationary and moving targets, in the presence of adverse weather, battlefield obscurants and advanced countermeasures. Laser and radar guided engagement modes allow JAGM users to strike accurately across wide target sets and reduce collateral damage
@Slav Defence @Arsalan @nair
The main advantage of the new missile over the Hellfire will be its dual-mode seeker, adding millimeter-wave (MMW) radar guidance to the Hellfire’s semi-active laser (SAL) guidance. The user can select the missile’s effect from the cockpit, setting the missile’s tandem, shaped charge warhead to deliver armor piercing or blast fragmentation effect.
The US Army has released a Request for Proposals for the Engineering (EMD) and development of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) – new air/ground missile designed to replace the current air-launched BGM-71 TOW, AGM-114 Hellfire and AGM-65 Maverick missiles. The US Army will offer the winner options for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), toward fulfilling the Army and Navy plan to buy thousands JAGM missiles. The Army that has published the RFP in January 2015 plans to award the contract in August this year.
The main advantage of the new missile over the Hellfire will be its dual-mode seeker, adding millimeter-wave (MMW) radar guidance to the Hellfire’s semi-active laser (SAL) guidance. The user can select the missile’s effect from the cockpit, setting the missile’s tandem, shaped charge warhead to deliver armor piercing or blast fragmentation effect. This capability adds fire-and-forget engagement modes to the weapon, significantly increasing the JAGM user survivability against threat defenses in GPS denied and austere communications environments.
The new missile consists of a newly developed Guidance Section (GS) mated to the existing HELLFIRE Romeo backend (motor, warhead and associated electronics). Compatible with the current Hellfire AGM-114R, JAGM will be used with AH-64D/E Apache and AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters and MQ-1C Gray Eagle and MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems.
JAGM’s target sets include moving and stationary armor, air defense units, patrol craft, artillery, transporter erector/launchers, radar sites and C2 nodes in addition to bunkers and other structures in urban and complex terrain.
JAGM can engage multiple stationary and moving targets, in the presence of adverse weather, battlefield obscurants and advanced countermeasures. Laser and radar guided engagement modes allow JAGM users to strike accurately across wide target sets and reduce collateral damage
@Slav Defence @Arsalan @nair
