Raytheon Team Demonstrates APKWS II Rocket Motor

ROCKET SCIENCE

Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2006
A Raytheon-led team has successfully demonstrated the rocket motor for its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) 2.75-inch laser guided weapon system.

The five static test firings at the Aerojet test facility in Orange, Calif., in September 2005, proved the design maturity of the innovative tailfin and nozzle assembly, the operational reliability and the successful integration of the tail fin assembly with the existing MK66 rocket motor.

A major benefit of the tail fin modification is the reduced ballistic dispersion of both guided and unguided rockets, which was proven by six berm tests in October, 2005, at Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center, Socorro, N.M., and 13 ballistic test firings in October at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. All demonstrated the predicted performance improvements.

The test also validated the capability of the Raytheon team to configure, integrate and fire the APKWS II system from a standard M209 Army and M201 Navy launcher.

"The test was a significant milestone for the Raytheon team and is a technical separator from our competition," said Ken Pedersen, Raytheon Missile Systems' vice president of Advanced Programs.

"Our APKWS II system reuses advanced precision fires technologies that are being fully matured under a wide range of tri-service programs, significantly reducing development time, cost and risk."

APKWS II will be a multi-service, multi-user, multi-platform system designed to engage and destroy stationary, re-locatable and moving targets ranging from buildings and bunkers to tactical vehicles. The weapon is also optimized to fight in today's urban and complex terrain environment and destroy small naval targets such as patrol craft.

ROCKET SCIENCE

DARPA Team Achieve First Flight Test Of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fueled Scramjet

Minneapolis MN (SPX) Dec 16, 2005
Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA in a pre-dawn launch on Saturday Dec. 10th.

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