US Army, Marines want to make the Hellfire missile replacement more deadly at sea
By: Jen Judson  
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are working to refine the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile’s software after it failed to achieve desired lethal effects on a maritime target during its initial operational test, Col. David Warnick, the Army’s program manager for joint attack munition systems, told Defense News in a recent interview.
The JAGM is to replace the legacy Lockheed Martin-made Hellfire missile used across the services.
A report from the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester released last month called out the less-than-lethal results during maritime testing of the new missile, which is also made by Lockheed. The initial operational test and evaluation, or IOT&E, was held at Fort Hood, Texas, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, in April and May 2019.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/02/27/army-and-marines-working-to-improve-hellfire-replacements-lethality-in-maritime-environment/
