που παράγονται από την ισραηλινή εταιρεία Rafael και Spike ER2 με εμβέλεια 5,5 χλμ. The U.S. Army experimented with an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter firing a Spike NLOS missile at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., on Aug. 26, 2019. The Army extensively demonstrated Spike on both foreign and American AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, which led to the decision to buy some to tie the service over until it can assess other capabilities and better refine requirements before developing a permanent solution. And struggle it did, finally reaching production in 2018 after 10 years was spent installing a new seeker on an existing missile. The U.S. Army is arming its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters with an Israeli missile that will enable Apaches to hit targets without a line of sight. Then the munitions would be put to the test with soldiers at the brigade level, followed by higher-level demonstrations at venues like the Joint Warfighting Assessment, to inform requirements, he added.Jen Judson is the land warfare reporter for Defense News. Despite being the “higher quantity” weapon JAGM clocks in at a gross unit cost of $324,000 compared to $221,000 for the small batch of Spike NLOS. The Army will need to finalize a preliminary design review across the board for assets within its future fleet in the 2023 time frame, so Isaacson said the Army has roughly three years to work with industry to settle on a capability and ensure it is interoperable with platforms “that are still somewhat on the drawing table,” something he said will be challenging.Sign up for the Early Bird Brief, the defense industry's most comprehensive news and information, straight to your inbox. The effort involved acquiring, incorporating the system on the airframe and firing the SPIKE NLOS missile from a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache helicopter at …
If the US had chosen to adapt Brimstone to its needs a great deal of time and money could have been saved as well as strengthening industrial ties with the UK. Τα επιθετικά ελικόπτερα AH-64 Apache θα είναι εξοπλισμένα με Spike NLOS με εμβέλεια άνω των 25 χλμ.
Increments 2 and 3, which were to add the increased range and other capabilities promised in the original JCM program, have seemingly been abandoned. https://www.defensenews.com © 2020 Sightline Media Group Production difficulties led to a staggering gross unit cost over triple that of laser Hellfire (and double that of Longbow) resulting in the continuation of Hellfire production for the foreseeable future. The Boeing AH-64 Apache (/ ə ˈ p æ tʃ i /) is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Spike NLOS Mk.2 is an improved version, resembling the Mk.1. In previous designs, only one guidance method was used but the JCM was to combine all three. Likely the all-weather performance of Spike NLOS’ IIR seeker won’t be sufficient for Army requirements necessitating the installation of radar as on JAGM. The Army is “pleased” with Spike’s beyond 30-kilometer range, he added, “so any competitor in any future fly-off will have to demonstrate that they can do very similar and get at a long range in a timely manner after our pacing threats.” Isaacson indicated the Army will likely work through cooperative research and development agreements among other means to demonstrate long-range precision munition capabilities at small venues. Of course, Spike NLOS was procured off the shelf so the Army doesn’t need to shoulder the development cost but this fails to account for JAGM’s miserable development history.The program had its beginning in 2002 as the Joint Common Missile (JCM), intended to be a singular replacement for the TOW, Hellfire, and Maverick missiles used by the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corp. From the outset, the program was blindly optimistic. Entering service in 2016, Brimstone 2 took this further and achieved the range desired by JCM as well as the ability to be carried on both fast jets and helicopters.
She has covered defense in the Washington area for nearly a decade. The Spike NLOS (non-line-of-sight) missile will allow Apaches to remain safely behind cover – a hill or trees – while they guide the munition to the target. Fired from an Israeli AH-64 Apache, the same gunship used by US attack helicopter squadrons, the Spike NLOS struck a target 20 miles away — four times the range of the standard US Hellfire. After 3 years of lobbying the program was restarted as the JAGM, a The development would stall once again resulting in the Navy abandoning the project, leaving the Army to struggle alone. Isaacson says there are a number of vendors with capabilities that could meet the future need.
JAGM has merely become an expensive Longbow Hellfire upgraded with a laser seeker. The US military expected a single missile the same size and weight as Hellfire (~50kg) to replace both TOW (20kg) as well as Maverick (220kg). που παράγονται από την ισραηλινή εταιρεία Rafael και Spike ER2 με εμβέλεια 5,5 χλμ. In 2021, the Army will buy 4,517 Hellfires and 667 JAGMs, greatly highlighting the failure to replace Hellfire. Earlier this year it was confirmed that the US Army would be purchasing Spike Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) The problem with this is that as of now the US Army pays more per round for JAGM than it does for the greater sophistication and capability of Spike NLOS.