Sea-Air-Space 2018: US Navy prepares for extended range guided missile
The US Navy is ploughing ahead with development of an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile—Extended Range (AARGM-ER) missile and rocket motor source selection is underway.
During a 9 April Sea-Air-Space 2018 presentation, USN Capt Matthew Commerford — program manger for direct and time sensitive strike — discussed development of the extended range version of the supersonic, air-launched tactical missile.
According to tentative plans, the missile will have a slightly different external look with a different rocket motor, control fins and control section but will carry the legacy warhead at first and reuse the guidance-section electronics and control-section electronics of the future AARGM
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