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Early Development MBDA Brimstone 2 Missile Makes ‘Significant’ Progress, Company Says

Gally Articola

Monday, November 4th, 2013

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MBDA said a series of successful firings of the Brimstone 2 development program in early October demonstrated “significant progress” in proving the performance of the latest guidance system upgrades being added to Brimstone via the U.K. Ministry of Defense program. The trials involved firing five missiles at a series of targets moving at up to and including 70 mph, from a variety of launch conditions including long range and high off-boresight. The tests were against targets transiting representative cluttered road environments. Every…

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