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Lockheed Martin Demonstrates LRASM’s Surface Launch Capabilities

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navyreco beat me to it :)

I've been trying to follow the LRASM program; the last time
May 17, 2016
LRASM news:

source is very official:
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and if you wanted to bet your money on LM :) you should perhaps read
Lockheed Martin Unit Wins $322M Deal for LRASM Support
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now noticed LRASM Scores in Navy Test Ship Launch
Lockheed Martin has completed the third of three test shots to prove that their air-launched Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) can be fired from a surface ship on the move, company officials told USNI News on Wednesday.

The Monday test at the Navy’s Point Mugu Sea Range, California took the same weapon Lockheed developed for a DARPA program to be launched against ships from fighters and bombers and loaded it into the same launch system used on the service’s guided missile destroyers and cruisers.

“We’re doing it to demonstrate that LRASM can be integrated onto a ship with software changes only and it won’t be a huge bill to put LRASMs in the surface fleet,” Scott Callaway — LRASM Surface-Launch director at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control — told USNI News.

Lockheed refurbished a Mk 41 Vertical Launch System cell for the test, combined the 500 nautical mile range LRASM with an additional booster and tied it to a Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System (TTWCS) for guidance – all installed on Navy’s Self Defense Test Ship, the former USS Paul Foster.

“We were able to demonstrate and execute that tactical, operational type mission through launch of the missile, separation of the booster and transition to a cruise portion of the flight,” Callaway said.
“And then we flew a series of waypoints at the mid-level cruise altitude for the first portion of the mission and then we descended down a low altitude and demonstrated our low altitude flight algorithms down to a tactical flight altitude.”

The test follows two MK 41 LRASM tests at the Navy’s Desert Ship tests at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico in 2013 and 2014.

“We have already demonstrated that we could execute the mission with the Mk 41 electronics and that we had a canister that worked and we gone through booster separation – so we had done everything except for launching from a moving ship,” Callaway said.

The successful Monday test, funded by the company, comes ahead of two key Navy weapons efforts to refresh the service’s anti-ship weapons – the over the horizon missile for the Littoral Combat Ship and frigate programs and the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) Increment II.

LRASM was originally developed for the air launched OASuW I as part of a DARPA program in response an urgent operational need issued by U.S. Pacific Command for a new air-launched anti-ship missile in 2009 as
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“Increment two was supposed to be a competition for both air and surface platforms. So we’ve been investing to reduce the risk of our surface-launched variant to compete for increment two,” Callaway said.
Lockheed is also, “working on maturing a deck-mounted launcher concept that would enable LRASMs to be integrated into those non-VLS platforms and that’s kind of what’s next for us – maturing that launcher and demonstrating that next year.”
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bd popeye

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Ofc yout too busy especialy with ISIS and youcan't look all :D

Foster is the last of 31 retired 10 years ago. Taiwan have the 4 Kidd AAW variant.

My son served aboard Foster from March 2000 until March 2003. She was decommissioned and transferred to the Naval Warfare Center. She later assumed the duties as the USN sole Self Defense Test Ship.

from wiki:
Paul F. Foster was decommissioned on 27 March 2003. In 2004, Paul F. Foster was designated to replace ex-
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as a
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for the Navy, a role she assumed in 2005. In support of this new role, she is assigned to
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. As of 2011, ex-Paul F. Foster is the last surviving example of the Spruance-class.

On 8 April 2011, Wired.com reported that ex-Paul F. Foster had successfully used the Maritime Laser Demonstrator for the first time in a sea-to-sea target test, sinking a small inflatable motorboat at a range of one mile in rough seas.

On 17 November 2011, ex-Paul F. Foster demonstrated the use of shipboard alternative fuel, while underway in the Pacific Ocean on a 50–50 blend of an algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76. The ship arrived Thursday morning to the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Port Hueneme in Southern California after traveling for 17 hours on a maiden trip from San Diego

In 2002 Paul F Foster visited Qingdao China..My son still says that was the most enjoyable port visit of his USN career.

ps..He took a three day tour to Beijing.:D

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Aboard the USS Paul F. Foster (DD 964) Qingdao, China (Nov. 24, 2002) -- Sailors aboard the Spruance-class destroyer Man The Rail, as a welcoming party of local officials and military leadership from the Peoples Republic of China prepare for the ships arrival honors. Paul F. Foster, homeported in Everett, Wash., is the first U.S. Navy ship to visit Mainland China since March 2001, following the downing of a U.S. Navy EP-3E Aeries reconnaissance aircraft in April 2001. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class Shawn Burns. (RELEASED)
 

navyreco

Senior Member
US Navy entrusting their MN allies with a lot of responsibilities lately. BZ!

French Navy Horizon-class DDG leads combined anti-terrorism mission with 2 US Navy Destroyers
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In another example of the high interoperability between the French Navy (Marine Nationale) and the US Navy, the Horizon-class AAW Destroyer Forbin (classified as "Frigate" in the French Navy) is currently at the head of a combined mission with US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) and USS Mason (DDG 87) with the occasional presence of Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG-61) as well.
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Equation

Lieutenant General
Cute plane, I want one!:D So the US is also having their own JF-17 type to supplement their Air Force as well.

The US Air Force may make history and buy this ridiculously cheap jet

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Textron AirLand's armed Scorpion.
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Years after initial development, Lockheed Martin's
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finally seems like it's well on its way to enter the US's fleet of fighter jets. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that the US Department of Defense isn't seeking alternative jets to supplement its squadrons.

According to
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, the US Air Force announced that it would begin testing aircraft that were not currently planned to be in its inventory. After signing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with
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, the Air Force will begin a series of tests to determine if Textron AirLand's flagship jet, dubbed "Scorpion," will be airworthy.

"This is the first of its kind, we have not done a CRADA like this before and we have never had a partnership with industry to assess aircraft that are not under a USAF acquisition contract," an Air Force representative said in a statement from
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.

The Scorpion is a different beast compared to the other jets around the globe. Starting with its cost, Textron AirLand's president, Bill Anderson, said in a
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, "The Scorpion ... was designed to be very effective and very affordable."

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"The goal was to create a very mission-relevant aircraft for today's security environment that's below $20 million in acquisition costs, and below $3,000 an hour to operate," he said.

By comparison, a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
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and $1,500 per hour to operate, while the conventional F-35A costs $98 million
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and
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in 2015.

The Scorpion features a
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and a
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in order to keep its weight and costs down. In addition to its twin turbofan engines that are able to achieve a
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up to 517 mph, it houses an internal
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that's capable of holding 3,000 pounds.

"It's quite maneuverable,"
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. "It reminds me of my days when I used to fly the A-10 in the US Air Force."

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From start to finish, the construction of the Scorpion was
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to maintain a competitive advantage. Nevertheless, the secret wasn’t kept very long — Textron AirLand was able to conduct testing soon after the aircraft’s conception.

“In a classic DoD acquisition program, they can spend up to 10 years just developing and fielding an aircraft — and we’ve done it in less than 2,” Anderson said.

However, it’s still too early to determine whether this move by the Air Force will also move the sale of Scorpion units both in the US and abroad — according to
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, the program has attracted only one potential customer.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Cute plane, I want one!:D So the US is also having their own JF-17 type to supplement their Air Force as well.
In terms of mission... No. The Scorpion Is a Air to ground based design. It's Air to Air capacity is about nil.
Scorpion in terms of role would be acting like how the Army Uses the UH72. It's a supplementary machine meant to free up fighters for combat operations with the possible of some air to ground operations. by contrast the JF17 is a full multi role machine.
 

Equation

Lieutenant General
In terms of mission... No. The Scorpion Is a Air to ground based design. It's Air to Air capacity is about nil.
Scorpion in terms of role would be acting like how the Army Uses the UH72. It's a supplementary machine meant to free up fighters for combat operations with the possible of some air to ground operations. by contrast the JF17 is a full multi role machine.

Yeah but wouldn't the US Army proposed new Sikorsky S-97 Raider helicopter could do the exact same job as the Scorpion as far as air to ground combat? Imagine if the Scorpion can be armed with a longer range radar with BVR missiles it could do some air to air (of course in large numbers) missions.;)
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Yeah but wouldn't the US Army proposed new Sikorsky S-97 Raider helicopter could do the exact same job as the Scorpion as far as air to ground combat? Imagine if the Scorpion can be armed with a longer range radar with BVR missiles it could do some air to air (of course in large numbers) missions.;)
Scorpion as over triple the Range of the Raider, Scorpion would also have 3x the external store and almost double the speed but Raider can carry 6 passengers take off vertically and be based of Naval shipping.
and as to Air to air... by that Argument A Cobra Attack helicopter can do Air to Air.
Scorpion's Air to Air capacity will be defencive at best As slated today it's Raidar is the Thales I-Master Radar a Dedicated Air to Ground and SAR system and the weapons most likely for such would be the Sidewinder AIM 9X.
 
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