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Navy Prepping For Another Round of Longbow Hellfire Tests

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

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Navy Prepping For Another Round of Longbow Hellfire Tests

USS Freedom (LCS-1). Photo: U.S. Navy.

This year the Navy will conduct another series of tests of a modified, vertically-launched Longbow Hellfire missile before integrating it on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in 2017, a program official said May 17.The service will fire four shots from test ship USNS Relentless, which—if successful—will wrap up demonstrations on that vessel, said Capt. Casey Moton, Navy program manager for the LCS mission modules.So far, there have been 12 test launches of the marinized AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire, which the Navy is…

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