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Tactical Missile Design by Eugene L. Fleeman

Tactical Missile Design Eugene L. Fleeman ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1563474948, 9781563474941
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast
Page: 286

The US Army has given Lockheed Martin $194 million for the production of the Army Tactical Missile System, which it expects to complete by the second quarte Tactical Missile System, which it expects to complete by the second quarter of 2010. Congress will decide if the tri-national missile defense program originally designed to replace Patriot will live past 2012. Patriot (MIM-104) is produced by Raytheon in Massachusetts and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire. Learning from the American experience in the Gulf War in 1991, the PLA began to design its own tactical precision strike missile using US Global Positioning System. The military had said the weapon system was specially designed to defeat anti-tactical missile defence systems. Patriot is a long-range, all-altitude, all-weather air defence system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft. According to the company, Patriot Advanced Capability-3 is a “hit-to-kill” terminal air defense missile designed to defend against adversarial tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft. ATACMS is a long-range missile artillery round designed specifically for destroying high-priority targets at ranges up to 300 kilometers. In May, during a visit to Tactical Missiles Corporation's NPO Raduga missile design bureau, Rogozin called on Russia's defense industry to develop hypersonic air-breathing weapons as a future strike system. The contract includes the ATACMS Quick Reaction Unitary and the Block IA Missiles. Congress spent the most recent round of budget hearings ripping the program the U.S.