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Successful LCS SSMM Test Leads To Developmental Testing

Friday, July 26th, 2019

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Successful LCS SSMM Test Leads To Developmental Testing

The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) firing an AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile during a live-fire exercise off the coast of Virginia on May 11, 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Last month, the Navy successfully completed a structural test firing of a Surface-to-Surface Missile Module (SSMM) on an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the Navy said last Thursday. Following the successful test at the Point Mugu Sea Range in California on June 11, the LCS Mission Modules program now moves to developmental testing of the SSMM aboard an Independence-variant ship. The June test was the first ever test firing of the SSMM on an Independence-variant type and the first in…

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