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Pentagon’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Completes Flight Test

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, February 20th, 2015

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Pentagon’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Completes Flight Test

A Lockheed Martin rendering of LRASM. (Image: Lockheed Martin).

The Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) being developed jointly by the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force and Navy conducted its third airborne-launched flight test earlier this month and met expectations during the low altitude flight, the prime contractor for the program, Lockheed Martin, said.The test took place at the Navy’s sea range at Point Mugu in southern California Feb. 4, when an Air Force B-1B bomber fired the prototype missile, which navigated its course while receiving target…

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