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AARGM Scores Successful Test, Readies For Milestone C

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Friday, August 15th, 2008

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Alliant Techsystems [ATK], the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force this month successfully completed another missile firing of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, the company said yesterday. The missile test firing was the first of two "Operational Assessment" firings supporting Milestone C Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) decision later this calendar year, according to ATK. AARGM was launched off-axis at medium altitude from an F/A-18D Hornet aircraft. In the…

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