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Air Force To Test New Swarming Cruise Missile On F-16

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

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Air Force To Test New Swarming Cruise Missile On F-16

A U.S. Air Force F-16. Photo: Air Force.

The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to use an F-16 fighter jet to conduct initial demonstrations of its new Gray Wolf cruise missile, according to Lockheed Martin [LMT], one of two companies recently awarded contracts to develop the weapon.The missile, which will use “networked, collaborative behaviors,” or swarming, to defeat integrated air defense systems, will also be designed to be compatible with F-15, F/A-18 and F-35 fighters and B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers, Lockheed Martin said Dec. 27.Lockheed Martin and…

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