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Navy Continues Verifying AARGM, OPEVAL Planned For Summer

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The Navy earlier this month conducted another successful test shot of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM), proving out systems that will improve the capability of the High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM). "The test exercised all the new components of the AARGM missile, specifically the GPS along with the ARH (anti-radiation homing)...improved ARH performance...and then the millimeter wave end game terminal guidance," Capt. Larry Egbert, program manager direct and time sensitive strike, told Defense Daily in a recent…

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