The US Marine Corps plans to replace Hellfire missiles with long-range loitering munitions on its attack helicopters

The US Marine Corps plans to replace obsolete Hellfire missiles with loitering missiles aviation long-range munitions on their attack helicopters. Such data follows from a report prepared by the US Navy, which provides for the Force Design 2030 (FD2030) project to modernize the naval forces.

It is worth noting that the main goal of the development of FD2030 is to contain or even achieve victory in a possible conflict with China and other potential adversaries of the United States.

Back on June 2, in an interview with reporters, Brigadier General Steve Lightfoot, director of the US Army Command's Specialized Research and Engineering Center, noted that, as a pilot of the Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter, he was trained in the combat use of air-to-surface missiles. hellfire.

The US military has praised the effectiveness of the aforementioned helicopters, claiming that they will last for several more decades and will prove themselves well in combat.

It is expected that these attack helicopters will be equipped with such munitions in the next few years, Lightfoot said, adding that ground launchers (LA) can also be used to launch them.

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[incognoto]

Well, it sounds very strange that in order to drop such products, you need the helicopter to be high, and at maximum speed. obviously cunning, they don’t agree on something

[Rumata]

Quote from incoggnoto

you need the helicopter to be high, and at maximum speed.

Uncle, you got it all wrong. Loitering ammunition = UAVs, and you thought they were planning.))) These are 2 big differences.

[solar]

The US Marine Corps plans substitute obsolete Hellfire missiles for loitering aviation munitions

I didn’t understand from the article why exactly replace, and not supplement?

[cold wind]

Hellfire is outdated, it's time to change. For a long time and. Spikes is one of the replacements here and now.

[Vitaly161]

I dare to guess because the ATGMs fired and forgot not the fountain proved itself in the realities of modern warfare, but Java and long bow are essentially the same thing (I mean the concept), but the same Stugna, as they say, is gorgeous

[Real Pilot]

The US Marine Corps plans to replace outdated Hellfire missiles against loitering long-range airborne munitions on their attack helicopters.

I don't think that they are outdated. Just proven in combat, accurate, noise-resistant and effective (where you don’t need to smash the whole block - but you need to get into a window or into a car).
But just loitering ammunition, and even a long-range one - this is still a relatively young technology, with some unresolved problems. And they don't need a helicopter as such, it's more a matter of convenience.
Therefore, it is hard to believe that they will replace it. Rather, they will develop a new type of ammunition. And they will implement its management as a module in the helicopter's avionics.

[Bingo]

So you have a conceptual mistake - you proceed from the effectiveness of the ammunition, and the Pyatistenka Sawmill - from the added value. After all, they are not for war, but for sale, so what will they REPLACE. And the Helfires will be written off as help ... Most likely to Taiwan, and they will receive real money from the budget for them.
It's all been rolled back more than once.

[karabas-barabas]

Quote from Bingo

and Sawmill-Pyatistenka - from the added value.

Do you have any facts of cutting in the US military-industrial complex, where there are no state-owned enterprises, or are you trying to pull Russian realities onto American ones? One could talk about cuts if the US Secretary of Defense announced 70% of modern equipment in the army, and B21, F-35, AUG Ford, etc. would be endless grandiose plans, and not reality. In my opinion, the last thing you should be interested in today, in view of the situation at the front, is some kind of "cutting" in the United States.

[Rumata]

Quote: karabas-barabas

You have some facts cut in the US military-industrial complex, where there are no state-owned enterprises,

There are cuts for hundreds of billions. The mechanics are different. Corporation X sells rivets to the Pentagon for 100 dollars, and the official who bought the rivets retires to work in this corporation with a salary of 100 thousand. per month.

[karabas-barabas]

Quote: Rumata

There are cuts for hundreds of billions. The mechanics are different.

There are a lot of independent audits and commissions, and if you buy staves for $100 that you can buy for $10, you will sit down, and you will not go to work where the rivets cost $100. Therefore, they do not have grandiose plans and statements, but the troops are being systematically updated with new, modern weapons, and not in single copies. The military-industrial complex concerns generally develop most of the developments at their own expense and not at state funds. You cannot cite the facts of systematic cutting and endless NIKORs for the sake of funding to make such a statement.

[Bingo]

Quote: karabas-barabas

Do you have any facts of cutting in the US military-industrial complex

Are you mentally retarded or from Mars? I will not even mention the F-35, which is still produced in pre-production batches in the status of "limited combat readiness". Just the facts:

Salon quotes the reports of the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction: "From ten to $43 million was spent on the construction of one gas station in the Afghan wilderness, <…> $150 million was spent on luxurious private villas for Americans, which were supposed to help strengthen the economy of Afghanistan, <…> Tens of millions have been wasted on failed programs to improve the Afghan industry, aimed at extracting more of the country's mineral reserves, oil and natural gas."

The Pentagon was unable to replace the Bradley BMP due to, as officially announced, "corruption among senior Pentagon officers who lobbied for the interests of one of the developers of the BMP."
In general, the Sawmill took over 30 TRILLION dollars from the budget to no one knows where - these are data for 2019, now more. Over three annual budgets of the entire US grunt - and "evaporated". A report on the results of an audit of Pentagon spending, the last time, it seems, was published in 2019)))
However, what I’m talking about, it’s clear that the person at work is pissing ... Pedivikia - from 11 to 14 links to criminal cases on corruption only in Afghanistan - 322 cases:
https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/en-ru.ru.b6529120-647e9480-c43a96db-74722d776562/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Inspector_General_for_Afghanistan_Reconstruction

[karabas-barabas]

Quote from Bingo

Are you mentally retarded or from Mars?

Judging by the rubbish that you post here day and night, you are more likely to be mentally retarded from Mars. There is a line behind the F-35, orders for more than 3500 pieces and already built under 900 pieces. The "pre-production" and "limitedly combat-ready" F-35 has been performing combat missions for a long time, and no one has such a reliable and combat-ready aircraft in all the most important indicators. It’s too lazy to even comment on the rest of the nonsense, it’s especially funny how you like to poke around in some kind of US financial spending, but what’s going on under your nose and how the reality that concerns the Russians looks today, you don’t care at all. For example, the amusing regiment Akhmat for several billion dollars, which he promised before the NWO, Putin will only order and we will capture Warsaw. The rearmament program of the Russian army since 2011 has cost about a trillion dollars, and all these years normal people have been writing about fraud and theft, and people like you have shut them up, calling them the fifth column, and today they came up with a new name-caller - siptsoshniki. And now people are being driven to mobilization without even providing a corny military uniform and "patriots" like you spat on the Russians, you are more concerned about the "problems" of the United States.

[Rumata]

Quote: RealPilot

they don't require a helicopter as such, it's more a matter of convenience.

This is the reaction speed and increase in combat radius

[spirit]

I didn’t understand from the article why exactly replace, and not supplement?

Because the author messed up something) Amers have already made a replacement for Hal, agm-179 and are actively testing it

[rocket757]

The US Marine Corps plans to replace Hellfire missiles with long-range loitering munitions on its attack helicopters

. This is also understandable ... kamikaze drones have become very effective weapons.

[Rumata]

Quote: rocket757

Kamikaze drones have become very effective weapons.

They always have been. It's just that only now stupid generals began to get into the subject.

[Pavel57]

Is a manned aircraft needed as a platform then? . What is the point of having a helicopter?

[Vitaly161]

the point is that the rotorcraft, approaching the line, lets it go and leaves, and the bp is controlled further on the TV channel, in fact, I think the Amerv decided to make an LMUR for themselves

[tsvetahaki]

Something strange... How will cast iron glide far from low altitudes?
Or will helicopters lift 7 km from them?

[Rumata]

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How will cast iron glide far from low altitudes?

ABOUT! Another laughable one does not understand the difference between UAV and UPAB)))