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Lockheed Martin Tests System To Update Missiles In Flight With New Target Data

Lockheed Martin Tests System To Update Missiles In Flight With New Target Data
1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Field Artillery Brigade fires a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) from an M270 multiple launch rocket system during the Thunder Cloud live-fire exercise in Andoya, Norway on Sept. 15, 2021 (U.S. Army Photo)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Wednesday said it has successfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept for providing target updates in flight to an aircraft acting as a surrogate for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS). The captive-carry test involved Lockheed Martin’s ground-based Remote Interceptor Guidance (RIG)-360 uplinker prototype sending target updates to a data link on the aircraft that is being evaluated for experimental use on the Multiple Launch Rocket System family of munitions. The company said the aircraft was flown to…

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