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Lockheed Martin’s PrSM Missile Reaches 400 Kilometers In Farthest Flight Test To Date

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021

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Lockheed Martin’s PrSM Missile Reaches 400 Kilometers In Farthest Flight Test To Date

Lockheed Martin's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Wednesday conducted the farthest test shot yet of the Army’s new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), reaching a range of 400 kilometers during a demonstration at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The fourth successful PrSM flight test will be followed by a maximum range test shot above 499 kilometers this fall at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and the first side-by-side missile firing at the Army’s next Project Convergence demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground…

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