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Navy’s AARGM-ER Gets Nod To Move Into Low-Rate Production

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

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Navy’s AARGM-ER Gets Nod To Move Into Low-Rate Production

Live fire test of the AARGM-ER from Navy F/A-18 at Point Mugu Sea Test Range, Calif. (Photo. U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) last month received authorization to transition the program into low-rate initial production (LRIP), with initial awards expected in the next few months. The Milestone C production decision follows the first live-fire test in July of the upgraded AARGM missile from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and comes just over two years after the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] the prime contract for engineering and manufacturing development of the missile, which includes a new…

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