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Free flight demo of MALD-X completed
The US Department of Defense has completed a series of free flight demonstrations of the Miniature Air Launch Decoy-X (MALD-X) missile.
MALD-X is a new version of the MALD-J missile developed by Raytheon. The collaborative project aims to demonstrate an improved electronic warfare payload, low-altitude flight and a datalink that will allow the weapon to communicate with other net-enabled systems.
The demonstrations were carried out by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering's Strategic Capabilities Office with the US Air Force MALD Program Office and Naval Air Warfare Center Point Mugu on 20 and 22 August.
MALD-X's modularity will allow the navy to rapidly inject adaptive payloads and capabilities into future mission sets.
The MALD-X programme is continuing to pursue multiple enhancements for the vehicle that would provide additional mission sets that will be demonstrated in 2019.
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