Northrop Grumman Successfully Identifies Modern Threats During Advanced Missile Flight Test
25 Juillet 2022 - 1:00PM
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully completed the
third captive flight test of its prototype missile development
series. The internally funded air-launched missile demonstrates
capabilities relevant for multiple services, missions and
platforms.
Completed at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake,
California, the internally funded test successfully validated the
capability to identify and discriminate modern, integrated air
defense systems and successfully tracked the intended targets
during a series of captive flight maneuvers using the company’s
test aircraft.
The missile is designed to target enemy air defense systems
while providing forces the freedom of maneuver to complete a
mission out of harm’s way. The design leverages the company’s
existing work under the U.S. Navy’s AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation
Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER), including engineering
manufacturing and development, low-rate initial production and
integration work for F-35 aircraft. To adapt to ever-changing
threats, the missile design features open architecture interfaces
that will allow for rapid subsystem upgrades to field enhanced
capabilities to the warfighter.
“By merging our weapons expertise and internal investments with
our digital engineering proficiency, we are rapidly delivering
advanced missile capabilities,” said Mary Petrysyzn, corporate vice
president and president, Northrop Grumman Defense Systems. “This
formula supports our strategy to design, test and deliver
technologically advanced capabilities ahead of schedule.”
By harnessing in-house digital engineering expertise from across
the company, including established programs with the U.S. Air
Force, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and NASA, Northrop
Grumman is accelerating development and build of its internally
funded missile solution, and will be ready to begin live fire
testing during 2022.
The company is planning additional flight tests this year in
more stressing scenarios that are relevant to all programs
leveraging the AARGM-ER program.
Northrop Grumman is a technology company, focused on global
security and human discovery. Our pioneering solutions equip our
customers with capabilities they need to connect, advance and
protect the U.S. and its allies. Driven by a shared purpose to
solve our customers’ toughest problems, our 90,000 employees define
possible every day.
Contact: |
Nancy Stoehr-Campbell |
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818-887-8471 (office) |
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818-854-0935 (mobile) |
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nancy.stoehr-campbell@ngc.com |
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