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originally posted by: anzha
a reply to: FredT
My only concern about the JASSM-XR is the flight time. The JASSM isn't a speedy missile and 1000 miles is long ways when you are subsonic. 2 hours, potentially 3? That's fine for static targets...but...
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: FredT
Walt until they get their new engines and they can really open up capabilities.
originally posted by: Tempter
Loiter time? So this missile is fired and just....loiters until the target is either ok'd or ready to be destroyed? What if the target is canceled? Does it then dump itself? It's not like it can return home.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: DexterRiley
Lockheed is the Walmart of the defense industry, without the low prices. They offer a little of everything.
originally posted by: FredT
The Pentagon announced that LockMart would be receiving a 51 million dollar (US) contract to develop an XR variant of its JASSM cruise missile with hopes to field it by 2023.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: DexterRiley
There were several incidents. One used counterfeit chips that were made in China, but the bigger one was the DJI drone fiasco. It turns out that all the pictures taken by a DJI drone are uploaded to a cloud like server, with GPS tags, that China has hacked repeatedly along with other vulnerabilities.
originally posted by: mightmight
originally posted by: FredT
The Pentagon announced that LockMart would be receiving a 51 million dollar (US) contract to develop an XR variant of its JASSM cruise missile with hopes to field it by 2023.
yeah whatever
They've been working on that one for almost 15 years.
some juciy details from way back:
www.flightglobal.com...
originally posted by: mightmight
yeah whatever
They've been working on that one for almost 15 years.
some juciy details from way back:
www.flightglobal.com...