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One of the missiles hit near the base's runway, while two landed in open areas and "one more hit near a building, causing minor damage," IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Monday, adding that the building was still under construction. Iran's state news agency, IRNA, said its domestically built Shahed 131 and 136 drones were used in the attack, the larger of which have a range of around 1,200 miles. The IDF said 170 drones were fired at Israel from Iran, and Israeli Air Force jets shot down dozens of them. U.S. aircraft operating from bases in Saudi Arabia and Jordan shot down between 70 and 80 of the drones, Martin reported. Shove the pallets out the back of the plane just like you would a pallet of supplies.
Storm Shadow
The most common mission for cruise missiles is to attack relatively high-value targets such as ships, command bunkers, bridges and dams.[52] Modern guidance systems permit accurate attacks. Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles and Emad ballistic missiles were also used in the attack, according to IRNA. Kheibar Shekan missiles, unveiled in 2022, are one of Iran's most modern ballistic missiles, IRNA said, and the Emad missiles can carry a payload of 1,600 pounds. The state news agency said the cruise missiles used in the attack were Paveh missiles, which it said were capable of attacking targets from multiple directions by taking varied paths. Multi-engine maritime patrol airplanes and bombers have considerable underwing space where several large cruise missiles like the LRASM and JASSM can be carried. Space is at a greater premium on the F-35 and Super Hornet, a reality that likely explains the RFI’s advisement that, "The USN desired MACE solution will maximize weapon load-out..."
LRSO Stealth Nuclear Missile On Track for Production Decision in 2027
The truck-launched versions, and also the Pershing II and SS-20 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles, were later destroyed under the bilateral INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) treaty with the USSR. These missiles travel faster than the speed of sound, usually using ramjet engines. A hypersonic cruise missile travels at least five times the speed of sound (Mach 5). Air Force received a final proposal for the Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) and is preparing to seek approval for the system’s engineering and manufacturing development. Scheduled for May 2021, about nine months earlier than expected, the pending authorization would officially create a program of record for the multibillion dollar nuclear...
AGM-86C/D Conventional ALCM (CALCM) Variants
The first example, similar to the original SCAD in most ways, flew for the first time in March 1976, and its new guidance system was first tested that September. Compared to the models that entered service in the 1980s, the A-model had a distinctive look; the nose tapered sharply to a triangular point giving it a shark-like appearance, compared to the later models which had a more rounded conventional appearance. Mark Gunzinger, an expert with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in Virginia, highlighted some of the objections. “Allocating some C-17 or C-130 aircraft to conduct strikes would reduce the airlift capability available to deploy and sustain U.S. forces,” he wrote in Defense News. A land variant of MACE might fulfill the same requirement and in an attritional fight like that in Ukraine, its low cost would be highly desired. If MACE is successful, there’s a good chance that it could be used as a shipborne missile fired from the Mark 41 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS) that equips the Navy’s cruisers and destroyers.
The problem is that a bomber must spend all day flying to within striking distance of its target then back. But the trial also marked the Air Force’s steady progress toward actually deploying a “missile in a box” and growing, by hundreds, the number of aircraft it can deploy for long-range strikes. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) issued an RFI (request for information) for possible offerings for what it calls a Multi-mission Affordable Capacity Effector (MACE) system in early February.
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In 1944, during World War II, Germany deployed the first operational cruise missiles. The V-1, often called a flying bomb, contained a gyroscope guidance system and was propelled by a simple pulsejet engine, the sound of which gave it the nickname of "buzz bomb" or "doodlebug". Accuracy was sufficient only for use against very large targets (the general area of a city), while the range of 250 km was significantly lower than that of a bomber carrying the same payload. The main advantages were speed (although not sufficient to outperform contemporary propeller-driven interceptors) and expendability. Bomber-launched variants of the V-1 saw limited operational service near the end of the war, with the pioneering V-1's design reverse-engineered by the Americans as the Republic-Ford JB-2 cruise missile. While ballistic missiles were the preferred weapons for land targets, heavy nuclear and conventional weapon tipped cruise missiles were seen by the USSR as a primary weapon to destroy United States naval carrier battle groups.
SPEAR 3 Development
Among these were airborne early warning aircraft and new weapons like the MiG-31 and Tor missile system specifically to shoot down the AGM-86.[3] The Air Force responded with the development of the AGM-129 ACM, which included stealth capabilities. The ending of the Cold War led to cutbacks in this program, and its expensive maintenance eventually resulted in it being abandoned in favor of life extensions to the original ALCM. The CSIS Missile Defense Project’s monthly newsletter has info on the project’s latest publications, events, and missile defense news.
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The Navy has admitted that all of its key shipbuilding programs -- from the new Columbia-class submarine to the new... The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine quickly if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill because it has a network... Ukrainian servicemen have been using American M777 howitzers on the battlefield as they seek to repel Russian forces in... The AGM-86C/D were previously based at Fairchild AFB, Wash., and are currently fielded at Barksdale AFB, La., and Andersen AFB, Guam.
Problematic development
Some ALCMs were modified for conventional use with INS/GPS-guidance and a blast fragmentation warhead and redelivered in 1987 as the AGM-86C CALCM. In June 1986 a limited number of AGM-86B missiles were converted to carry a high-explosive blast/fragmentation warhead and an internal GPS. This modification also replaced the B model's terrain contour-matching guidance system and integrated a GPS capability with the existing inertial navigation computer system.
However, it only saw its combat debut on 7 October 2015, in Syria as a part of the Russian military campaign in Syria. The missile has been used 14 more times in combat operations in Syria since its debut. Air Force retired its final Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM), a long-range cruise missile carried by the B-52 bomber. Developed in the 1970s, the CALCM first saw combat use during the Gulf War of 1991, and was employed in major combat operations including Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom.... Of 120 ballistic missiles fired at Israel from Iran, the U.S. officials told CBS News only five got through Israeli and U.S. air defenses and hit Israeli territory.
NAVAIR apparently desires a smaller form-factor for the weapon than the Harpoon or the LRASM, possibly sized similarly to the Raytheon RIM-174 (SM-6) anti-ship missile that the Navy conducted tests with on a Super Hornet in 2021. NAVAIR also stressed that designing MACE for F-35A/C internal-carriage would by itself “immediately maximize stores-carriage on F/A-18E/F”. France, the UK, along with Italy are jointly developing the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon to replace SCALP/Storm Shadow and each nation's respective anti-ship missiles by 2028 and 2034. He previously covered leadership and personnel issues at Air Force Times, and the Pentagon, special operations and air warfare at Military.com. The Air Force hopes this concept will allow the U.S. and its allies to turn cargo aircraft into heavily armed bomb trucks that can engage enemies at a safe distance, giving combatant commanders more options to deliver firepower.
A longer video of the test posted by the Pentagon showed the cruise missile traveling over the sea for about 2 minutes before detonating. When asked if a target was destroyed, the lab did not respond directly, but said that all objectives were met. Like the Dual Mode Brimstone missile, the Spear 3 incorporates both a millimeter wave (mmW) and semi-active laser (SAL) terminal seeker for targeting flexibility. The seeker captures images at 94 Ghz (near optical wavelengths), producing high resolution images for the system’s target recognition algorithms to evaluate without human intervention.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has for the first time in an overseas test used its Rapid Dragon system, in which cruise missiles on pallets are launched from the back of a mobility aircraft. The AGM-86 Air-Launched Cruise Missile is a low-level, penetrating nuclear strike weapon for use against strategic surface targets. ALCM’s small radar signature and low-level flight capability enhance the missile’s effectiveness. On September 22, the Russian submarine Veliky Novgorod (B-268) fired an unknown number of Kalibr cruise missiles (SS-N-27/30A) from a submerged position at targets in Syria’s Idlib province. The missiles traveled 300 km before striking command centers, armored vehicles, and training facilities. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the missile launch was a counter-offensive...
After considering the two designs, the Air Force agreed to modify the ALCM with the SLCM's McDonnell Douglas AN/DPW-23 TERCOM system, as well as using its Williams F107 turbofan engine. Meanwhile, the Air Force had also issued a requirement for a version with a much longer 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) range. This would allow the bombers to launch their missiles from far off the Russian coast, placing it outside the range of the interceptors as well. To reach the intended range, this new Extended Range Version (ERV) would have to be lengthened to contain more fuel, or external fuel tanks would have to be added. Either change would make it too large to fit on the SRAM launchers and the extended-fuselage version would be too large to fit in the bomb bay of the new B-1 Lancer bomber. The Air Force intended to replace the original ALCM with the new version at some future date.
The JASSM project began in 1995 after the cancellation of the AGM-137 TSSAM project. The TSSAM was designed as a high precision stealthy missile for use at standoff distances, but poor management of the project resulted in rising costs. Since the requirement for such weapons still existed, the military quickly announced a follow-up project with similar goals. Initial contracts for two competing designs were awarded to Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas in 1996, and the missile designations AGM-158A and AGM-159A were allocated to the two weapons. Lockheed Martin's AGM-158A won and a contract for further development was awarded in 1998. The United States Air Force's first operational surface-to-surface missile was the winged, mobile, nuclear-capable MGM-1 Matador, also similar in concept to the V-1.
With demand at such a level for these $3 million-plus per unit missiles, a far cheaper MACE could potentially be ordered in the thousands per annum. To fill such orders, any company building MACE AURs (all-up rounds - missile/seeker/warhead) will have to have significant capacity. European Command’s operational series Atreus, which aims to conduct training events on capabilities found in Europe. The 352nd Special Operations Wing is based at RAF Mildenhall in England, and the MC-130 was from the wing’s 67th Special Operations Squadron. The UK will send more Storm Shadow long-range missiles to Ukraine as part of its single biggest military aid package to the country since Russia’s invasion, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.
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