An advanced multi-mode seeker has been tested by the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal from Jun. 2-3. This new seeker allows the Precision Strike Missile system to attack moving ships and also land-based targets such as communications vans and the mobile radars of air defenses systems.
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This multi-mode seeker was developed from the Land-Based Anti-Ship Missile program in 2015. It was mounted on the wing pod of an aircraft and flown over the testing range at Redstone to track the radio waves of moving targets, it was operating at 50 percent capacity.
Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team, says the next step is to deploy the device at full capacity in a more challenging, deliberate testing environment. Testing will move to White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, this fall.
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