DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed Martin’s JAGM Successfully Completes Flying Qualities Tests On Navy’s Super Hornet....NSI News Source Info # 1400

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed Martin’s JAGM Successfully Completes Flying Qualities Tests On Navy’s Super Hornet....NSI News Source Info # 1400

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Lockheed Martin - January 3, 2011

(NSI News Source Info) ORLANDO, FL, - January 8, 2011: Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed a comprehensive series of tests to demonstrate the flight characteristics of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F while carrying the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The flying qualities test series consisted of six flights from Patuxent River Naval Air Station, MD, between October 5 and November 2 with a total flying time of 11.2 hours.

The aircraft flew at altitudes ranging from 5,000 feet to 35,000 feet and at speeds approaching Mach 1.0. During each flight, the Super Hornet was refueled in the air by a support tanker to enable the aircraft to reach all the required speeds and altitudes at which JAGM had to be tested.

The JAGM test articles were six instrumented measurement vehicles (IMVs) equivalent in weight, size and dimensions to tactical JAGM rounds and outfitted with resistive temperature devices, acoustic sensors and accelerometers to measure the flight environments experienced by the launchers and the missiles.

Three IMVs were loaded onto each of two new Navy fixed-wing triple-rail launchers designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin and Marvin Engineering to carry JAGM on the F/A-18E/F. Fully outfitted, the Super Hornet could be configured to carry 18 JAGMs, as opposed to just four of the Maverick air-to-ground missiles that JAGM will replace.

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