NLOS-LS Team Completes First Phase of Precision Attack Missile Testing
NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Company’s Missile Systems and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, successfully launched another Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System Precision Attack Missile (PAM) July 22.
“The success of Control Test Vehicle-2, CTV-3 and CTV-4 allows us to conclude the first phase of controlled test flights,” said Scott Speet, executive vice president of NetFires LLC and Raytheon’s NLOS-LS program director. “NLOS-LS is now ready to begin the guided flight test phase in September.”
To prove the missile’s stability during flight, the test stressed the airframe to its limits using high-gravitational force maneuvers. The PAM joined the network after launch and operated as a node on the net throughout the flight using its onboard radio.
The NLOS-LS is one of the 14 Future Combat Systems core systems. As part of the FCS systems-of-systems, the NLOS-LS will meet the requirements of the Army’s future brigade combat teams by providing increased capability for the current force’s modular BCT.
NLOS-LS provides the brigade commander immediate, precise and responsive fires on high-payoff targets with real-time target acquisition and battle effects. It is also one of the key littoral combat ship mission modules.
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