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LCS Missile Test Marks End Of First Missile Module Phase

Thursday, May 17th, 2018

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LCS Missile Test Marks End Of First Missile Module Phase

The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) firing an AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile during a live-fire exercise off the coast of Virginia on May 11, 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Littoral Combat Ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) conducted a live-fire missile exercise on May 11 that completed the first phase of the LCS Mission Modules (MM) program Surface-to-Surface Mission Module (SSMM) Developmental Testing, the Navy said Wednesday,The test had the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Freedom-variant LCS fire four Lockheed Martin AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles that successfully hit fast inshore attack surface craft targets off the coast of Virginia.This was the first integrated firing of the SSM from an LCS and the…

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