It might be the most accurate ground-launched missile
According to a press release from DARPA, all test goals were met by the OpFires system, including the first-ever use of alogistics truck as a medium-range missile launcher, missile canister egress, steady flight capture, and use U.S. Army inventory artillery fire control systems to launch the test mission. The system, which was created by Lockheed Martin and used a Northrop Grumman rocket motor, conducted the latest set of tests.
"This is a promising step toward a TEL on-demand capability for accurately firing medium-range missiles from highly agile, readily available logistics trucks that are already in both the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps inventory," said Lt. Col. Joshua Stults, the DARPA program manager for OpFires."Our successful agile hardware development approach prioritizes full-scale flight testing that will inform further design maturation this year," he added.
The main objective of OpFires is the development and demonstration of a ground-launched, two-stage propulsive system that can use payloads from common U.S. military trucks to travel at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound in order to accurately and quickly strike time-sensitive targets. OpFires is extremely mobile and easily deployable since it is compatible with existing command and control, vehicles, logistics infrastructure, and operating environments.
According to DARPA, the OpFires program will"complete an integrated system critical design review in 2022."Stay ahead with the latest science, technology and innovation news, for free:
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