US Army selects new guided missile for attack helicopters and UAVs

The American army is choosing a new missile for arming drones, as well as modern and promising helicopters. According to Flightglobal, the development and purchase of new ammunition will take place as part of the LRPM (Long Range Precision Munition, long-range high-precision ammunition).

The U.S. Army has already announced requirements for a new missile. According to them, a rocket should hit ground targets (manpower, lightly armored vehicles and command posts) at a distance of not less than 30 km, and it should also be able to overcome and destroy complex air defense systems. The mass of the rocket should not exceed 91 kg together with the launch container, if such is provided for by its design. It is emphasized separately that the rocket must overcome 30 km in no more than 100 seconds.

In announcing a competition for a new missile, the US Army put forward one more condition - only missile designs ready for testing and production will be considered. After being taken into service, they plan to introduce a new missile into the armament complex of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and the MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones. It will also be put into service with promising helicopters, which are being developed to replace modern models.

The new missile should replace the already obsolete AGM-114 Hellfire guided missile, armed with modern US helicopters and drones. A single JAGM air-to-surface missile, which has been produced in small series since last year to replace Hellfire, apparently does not quite suit the US military because of its short range. With a mass of 49 kg, the JAGM is capable of hitting a target at ranges up to 8 km.

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[Nycomed]

"In announcing a competition for a new missile, the US Army put forward one more condition - only projects of missiles ready for testing and production will be considered"
Absolutely the right approach.

[Magic archer]

Interestingly, will foreign-made missiles be admitted to the competition? No matter how in Israel there is a rocket that is suitable for the characteristics.

[Zeev Zeev]

Of course, foreign missiles will be allowed. Americans do not worry at all about the countries participating in tenders.

[nPuBaTuP]

Americans do not worry at all about the countries participating in tenders.

Come on ... and can Russia also take part?
Can not?...
So maybe soared?

[Corn]

Does Russia have something to offer in this segment?

[Rwmos]

Russia has to show a victory in Syria over ISIS, against which the entire concept of the US army, including such "anti-manpower" SDs, has shown its complete futility.

[Corn]

UR "against manpower" - has shown its complete uselessness.

sho seriously? And the peasants then think that UR has become the main weapon of war. I’ll go tell them that this is not so, thanks for dispelling the error.

[Rwmos]

You are welcome. Even in Afghanistan, they began to apply carpet bombing directly at once - already in the 2001 year. Something did not grow together with URami about the price-effectiveness. And to drive one barmaley with urom across the bare desert is not at all for average minds. They used URs well in Syria - Tomahawks en masse. True, they didn’t get anywhere.
That is why they stole Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, because they sang songs about the fact that UR is the main thing in such a war And everywhere they scooped out with a full shovel

[Mountain shooter]

They will do it, who would have doubted. But I look at all these weapons ... Well, who will give them target designation? When semi-guerrilla formations are chasing, this is understandable, there will still be no opposition ... But how and what will be over the field for when any Drones are "cleaned" from the sky, the electronic warfare will cover the "clearing" with an impenetrable cap, the multi-layered army air defense will knock down everything that moves in the sky, including crows and seagulls, and here you are, with a helicopter and its radar, which shines in the electromagnetic sky like a searchlight in the night ...

[Lopatov]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

They will do who would doubt it.

Well ... not a fact Recall JAGM. Zamah was also not sickly.

[Saxahorse]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

And how and what will happen over the field for when any Drones are "cleaned" from the sky, the electronic warfare will cover the "clearing" with an impenetrable cap, the multi-layer army air defense will knock down everything that moves in the sky, including crows and seagulls, and here you are, with a helicopter,

"When" and "if" are probably key points

By the way, this is the plan for this drones. To replace Helfaer. And in general, we have nothing to clean them from a range of 30 km.

[Rwmos]

STRATEGIC drone - nothing? Tell Iran, even they have something. And a quadrocopter with Ali-express simply will not pick up such a rocket

[Tatyana14]

The main thing is that our military leadership does not have such thoughts as yours.

[Avior]

UAV, for example.
A military air defense does not shine?

[KVU-NSVD]

at a distance of not less than 30 km, she must also be able to overcome and engage complex air defense systems. The mass of the rocket should not exceed 91 kg together with the launch container, if such is provided for by its design. It is emphasized separately that the rocket must cover 30 km in no more than 100 seconds.

Not frail Wishlist. There are feelings. that the requirements were written on the basis of the performance characteristics of the Shell of the last modification.

[marshes]

An interesting requirement for a rocket to find out.
Not really with AI.

[Izotovp]

Helicopter missiles are getting closer to cruise missiles).

[abc_alex]

Oh! And what about managed? But what about "shot and scored"? Is "shot and hit" still more important?

[NordOst16]

And there are pilots who are capable of unguided missiles at a distance of 10 or more kilometers, how to get a pretty penny?

[Tatyana14]

And lined and forgot this is not a guided missile - a very interesting idea.

[abc_alex]

Quote: Tatyana14

lined and forgot

This is a homing missile.
It’s hard, you know, to forget the protractor if it has to be controlled.

[Zeev Zeev]

Hm. And what, Spike-NLOS for these performance characteristics fits quite well.

[marshes]

Quote: Zeev Zeev

Hm. And what, Spike-NLOS for these performance characteristics fits quite well.

So they hold a tender for these characteristics, because Kushnir's son-in-law.

[Lopatov]

Spit on son-in-law. Local gunmen and Trump are able to eat without salt.

And the American military industrial complex will not allow helping its direct competitor.

[marshes]

Quote: Spade

Spit on son-in-law. Local gunmen and Trump are able to eat without salt.

Everything has changed there, local gunsmiths are already exhausted. Yes, and the national composition has changed.
They rule the world of corporation.

[Lopatov]

Quote: marshes

Everything has changed there, local gunsmiths are already exhausted

They don’t need money now?
On the contrary, their grasping reflex has become even more powerful.

[Zeev Zeev]

In the US, the president cannot do what he pleases.

[marshes]

Quote: Zeev Zeev

In the US, the president cannot do what he pleases.

Maybe if the senate and the Congress fall under it, at the moment there are a lot of like-minded people.

[Corn]

In addition to the speed that you want to increase by a third.

[Zeev Zeev]

Well this is not a problem, the low speed is due to the use of a cumulative warhead.

[garri-lin]

According to the parameters, this is not a replacement for helfaire but an addition to it. Long arm. Spending a 91 kg rocket on a jihadmobile is impractical. Or it will be modular. The long version is at a great distance and shortened to near and inexpensive targets. I think up to 5 kilometers.

[NordOst16]

It is unlikely that they will be fenced because the turbojet engine, in comparison with the GOS, does not cost much

[garri-lin]

There is not only price. Helfaer weighs half as much and has a range of 10+. For light drones is almost perfect. Hanging instead of 2 lungs 1 long-range sometimes nn makes sense. Either there will be a light version or Helfaer will remain in service.

[NordOst16]

The question is how much this light drone will be light. For 0,2 tons (≈4 missiles) to raise and even in the air for at least 5-6 hours is not a small car should be. Maybe they will decide to use the car more and not to make different rocket modifications

[garri-lin]

Correctly. Let's double everything. And at a price of four.

[NordOst16]

Well, a heavier drone at a higher price can be equipped with more advanced electronic warfare equipment in order to increase its survival. It can also stay in the air longer and take more weapons. And heavier missiles will cost almost the same and there will be no heap of missiles of different varieties.
Maybe I'm wrong of course.

[garri-lin]

And if the weapons will weigh half as much and at the same time meet the requirements of the task, then you can take them twice as much. The most difficult thing on the battlefield is target detection. If the target can be detected from 2 km, then why a missile with a range of 10? Helfaer corresponds to reality. The new missile is not a replacement but a supplement. Long arm for external target designation or open theater. When development is over and the price is announced, you will see that it will not be cheap.

[marshes]

Quote: garri-lin

According to the parameters, this is not a replacement for helfaire but an addition to it. Long arm. Spending a 91 kg rocket on a jihadmobile is impractical

From your point of view, the fighters, to whom this installation is prescribed, decide on the application.
They can use a sniper in a cave against a sniper; by the way, this was a witness, doc. film shot on an amateur camera.

[garri-lin]

It's one thing when Helfair flies into a single sniper. And it is completely different when "TochkaU" arrives. And that happened. Or you can blow up a mountain entirely with a nuclear mine. America has already been burned in the MASSIVE destruction of penny targets with hundred-ruble munitions.

[marshes]

Quote: garri-lin

It’s one thing when Helfaer flies into a solitary sniper

Decision surprises me here, just a sergeant.

Quote: garri-lin

And it is completely different when "TochkaU" arrives.

But there to decide on the application, it depends on the battalion headquarters.

[garri-lin]

And what is so surprising in deciding to use weapons with an ordinary sergeant? Sometimes at the request of the lieutenant heels of the trunks of 152mm for 10 minutes a gunpowder harness.

[marshes]

Quote: garri-lin

Sometimes at the request of the lieutenant heels of the trunks of 152mm for 10 minutes a gunpowder harness.

Well this is probably a joke.

[garri-lin]

Well it depends on the situation. You know the term "donated funds". If an unmanned aircraft is attached to the squad, then the squad leader will dispose of it. Sometimes a soldier needs something more than a machine gun to achieve a goal, and the shorter the chain for calling this more, the more effective and faster the result.

[Operator]

"the rocket must cover 30 km in no more than 100 seconds", - 300 m / s, is that such a joke of humor?

[Saxahorse]

Quote: Operator

300 m / s, is this such a joke of humor?

It’s likely that they wouldn’t slip the planning bomb :) Those with ranges of up to 110 km, but it’s painful to climb high to drop it.

[garri-lin]

Less speed means less fuel, which means more warheads. Yes, and for average speed when flying by inertia is not enough.

[Operator]

Less speed makes it easier to shoot down.

[garri-lin]

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, anything less than 1000m / s gets off equally easily. Perhaps this is the minimum requirement below which it should not fall and the real figure will be higher.

[Rwmos]

manpower, lightly armored vehicles

We have already tried to use UR and other "high-precision" weapons against martyrs and single barmaley, for example, in Iraq. It ended with the realization that even the United States would overstrain all the Hondas in the world, and they moved on to their favorite carpet bombing raids.
Sawmills of America ... Interestingly, this is not at all connected with that. that they’re the Minister of Defense now - a professional lobbyist of the Raytheon concern, what spanks such racquets? And there is no corruption that you