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Title: New long-range missile project emerges in US budget
Post by: rangerrebew on November 07, 2017, 10:21:14 am


New long-range missile project emerges in US budget

    02 November, 2017 SOURCE: FlightGlobal.com BY: Stephen Trimble Washington DC

The existence of a two-year-old project to develop a new air-to-air missile capable of intercepting targets at great distances has emerged in US budget documents.

The Office of the Secretary Defense (OSD) launched a two-year engineering assessment of a new long-range engagement weapon (LREW) designed with the goal of “maintaining air dominance”, according to budget documents released last March.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/new-long-range-missile-project-emerges-in-us-budget-442816/