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Lockheed Martin Flight Test Demonstrates JAGM Dual Mode Guidance Section

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

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Lockheed Martin Flight Test Demonstrates JAGM Dual Mode Guidance Section

JAGM Photo: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday said it recently demonstrated its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) dual-mode guidance section during a second internally funded flight test at Eglin AFB, Fla. During the test, the rail-mounted JAGM flew 6.2 kilometers and initially acquired the target using its precision strike, semi-active laser. The dual-mode guidance section then engaged its millimeter wave radar, and the moving target was destroyed, the company said in a statement. The flight test is a risk reduction milestone critical to Lockheed…

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