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Lockheed's Orlando, Fla., Engineers Fine-Tune Navy's New Air-Launched Missile.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004
By Christopher Boyd, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 19--Early in the next decade, the Pentagon plans to outfit helicopters, fighter jets and potentially unmanned aircraft with a new generation of air-to-ground missile capable of dodging interceptors and piercing violent storms in search of targets.
The Joint Common Missile, which Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control division in Orlando will design under a program worth more than $5 billion over 20 years, would become the main air attack missile for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, replacing several different weapons now in the arsenal.
"This is a weapon that could still be in the military's inventory 30 years from now," said Steve Barnoske,...
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