#Joint strike missile upgrade#

If the Marines have to island hop in the Western Pacific region, NSM may provide a critical self-defense, and offensive sea-control capability they are currently missing. Even if it cannot, it has been shown to be fireable from high-mobility trucks, as the Army showed. It has not been demonstrated if the missile can fit inside the standard HIMARS or M270 rocket canisters, but it does not seem improbable that it can. The Marines have experimented at times with engaging ships at sea with guided MLRS rockets. The Army recently announced its ATACMS follow-on would have anti-ship capabilities. LONDON, J/ PRNewswire / - Norway's Ministry of Defense successfully test fired a Joint Strike Missile from an F-16 Fighting Falcon, demonstrating the weapon's ability to change course to avoid hitting a decoy target, and fly at low, radar-evading altitudes. This acquisition is part of a greater shift within the ground branches to be able to exert sea control. New missile demonstrates advanced target identification. The Marines can not always assume they will have the luxury of AWACS like the Navy does with its E-2C/D Hawkeyes. The bulk of the challenge will be integrating the missile into tactical data networks, so that it can be fed sensor data from organic assets like F-35Bs, AH-1Zs, or other airborne units such as UAVs. Army multi-domain task force as part of the 2018 Rim of the Pacific sinking exercise.ДЄ key consideration for the Marines is that the missile integrates smoothly into their existing forces structure. One missile was launched from this platform to engage an over-the-horizon maritime target in conjunction with the U.S. Army M1075 PLS truck on Pacific Missile Range Facility in Barking Sands, Hawaii, on July 11, 2018. Doug Creviston, Office of the Secretary of Defense Comparative Technology Office director, stand in front of a loaded Naval Strike Missile palletized launcher mounted on a U.S.

Hunter Blackwell, Mobile Land-Based Anti-Ship Fires Foreign Comparative Testing project lead, and U.S. This suggests a possible roll-on, roll-off ability for enabling rapid deployment anti-ship capability. Notable was that the truck simply loaded the standard four-missile box frequently used on warships. The missile then struck a target hulk out at sea, in coordination with other sensor platforms. During RIMPAC 2018, an Army development unit fired an NSM from a standard Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT). The NSM has been proven as a shore-based weapon already. The Joint Strike Missile is designed to fit in all relevant weapon stations of the F-35. A Raytheon statement said вЂњThe Marine CorpsвЂ™ selection of the NavyвЂ™s anti-ship missile enhances joint inter-operability and reduces costs and logistical burdensвЂќ. The Navy is also going to buy NSM in substantial numbers for its small surface combatants, the LCS and FFG(X) ships. The stealthy weapon can fit inside the internal weapon bays of the strike fighter, enabling long range at minimum impact to radar cross section.

Naval Strike Missile has long been a planned part of the Navy and USMC F-35 variantвЂ™s arsenal. Acquisition of the Naval Strike Missile, in suit with the Navy doing the same, may allow greater sea control by Marine Corps units on small islands scattered throughout the Western Pacific, enabling the deployment of Navy warships to where they are needed most. A contract, worth $47 million, was awarded to Raytheon for integration into the existing USMC force structure. NorwayвЂ™s Ministry of Defense successfully test-fired the weapon from an F-16 Fighting Falcon in 2018.The Marine Corps has elected to purchase the Raytheon/Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile as an element to their future plans for island hopping in the Western Pacific.

#Joint strike missile upgrade#

The potential upgrade will further strengthen the capabilities of JSM for the most challenging scenarios in a modern battlefield, Kongsberg stated. JSM will be carried externally on other aircraft. Built by BAE Systems Australia, the RF-seeker sensor will allow the long-range precision strike missile to locate targets by their electronic signatures. The Joint Strike Missile is the only fifth-generation cruise missile designed to be launched from the internal weapons bay of the F-35A. Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Norwegian defense company Kongsberg Defence Aerospace are developing JSM for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Its imaging infrared seeker provides autonomous target recognition, and a two-way data link offers retargeting and mission abort options. The Joint Strike MissileвЂ™s navigation system allows it to rapidly change course in flight and fly at low, radar-evading altitudes. Its long standoff range, or distance from the launching aircraft to the target, keeps pilots out of harmвЂ™s way. The Joint Strike Missile вЂ“ or JSM вЂ“ is a long-distance weapon that takes on heavily defended targets on land and at sea.