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Navy To Study How To Improve Coyote Target Performance

Wednesday, February 14th, 2024

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Navy To Study How To Improve Coyote Target Performance

A Northrop Grumman’s GQM 163-A Coyote is a target vehicle launches. It is used to simulate advanced anti-ship cruise missile threats for the U.S. Navy. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

The Navy issued a notice on Monday that it intends to award Northrop Grumman [NOC] a delivery order to conduct a study aimed at improving the performance of the Coyote targets used in weapons testing. This specifically covers “non-recurring engineering efforts to perform a study to increase the performance envelope of the GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea-Skimming Targets (SSST).” The Navy expects to award the contract in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, with the work set to last for…

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