New UAS Advanced Missile
The US Army's newest and most advanced Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), the Extended Range/Multi-Purpose (ER/MP) UAS, has successfully completed a series of tests with the HELLFIRE(r) II UAS a missile specially engineered to fire from a UAV with a 360-degree targeting ability.
The tests, involving nine perfect or near-perfect missile firings, took place at the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California, and demonstrated the missile's ability to engage a wider target envelope than a typical Hellfire missile.
“The significance to this is this is the first missile designed specifically for a UAV. The HELLFIRE UAS missile can take advantage of a 360 look around angle. The ball on the UAV can swivel 360 degrees and with this missile you can engage targets that are below you, behind you and well off-axis from what a typical HELLFIRE can do,” said Tim Owings, deputy project manager, Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems. “There were nine successful shots. The big point is the laser designation system, the weapons system and the UAV all performed as designed and as expected. It was a really clean test.”
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