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Ursa Major Static Fires New Extended Range Rocket Motor For APKWS

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Ursa Major Static Fires New Extended Range Rocket Motor For APKWS
Hot fire of Ursa Major's new 2.75-inch extended range rocket motor for the APKWS. Photo: Ursa Major

Ursa Major has completed static fires of a new solid rocket motor to extend the range of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS), moving the effort toward a flight-test this fall, the company said on Wednesday. The static fires of the 2.75-inch rocket motor were done in collaboration with BAE Systems, the supplier of the APKWS, which converts the unguided Hydra 70 rocket into a laser-guided precision munition fired from rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft. In June, U.S. Air Force…

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