Orel escribió:USAF issues RFI for long range, high-speed, air-to-air missile technologies
... The technical focus of the RFI provides for "descriptions of innovative long-range air-to-air missile design concepts to existing full prototypes and key technologies that enable the capability".
https://www.janes.com/article/95969/usa ... hnologiesg
Por aquí algo más de información: https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-s ... -missiles/
May 6, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
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The solicitation, released by Air Force Materiel Command’s Air Force Research Laboratory, at the Eglin weapons directorate, seeks industry ideas for technologies applicable to new dogfight missiles, which presumably would improve or replace the current generation of AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9X Sidewinder, and complement the secretive AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile. The AFRL wants companies to indicate their interest to work on the project by June 18. It did not say when a program of record might begin. AFRL’s point of contact on the solicitation could not be reached, and AFMC had no immediate comment.
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According to the AFRL notice, the new missiles have to fit inside the weapon bays of fifth-generation fighters and not exceed 156 inches. AFRL is willing to consider single or multi-stage rocket motors, or an air-breathing system, but is keenly interested in “multi-pulse solid rocket motors” that can be throttled, along with innovative “propellants, grain configurations, cases, and liners.” The Air Force wants a missile faster than the ones it has already, with “compact design” warheads having “high single-shot probability of kill.” It wants “novel” airframes and compact control systems, advanced battery technology, and ultra-capacitors in the power system.
The Air Force will also consider “novel carriage and release concepts,” and wants “advanced power delivery” and “advanced data transmission.”
“Key considerations” for the new weapons, include:
Technical feasibility
Performance
Resource availability
Cost
Manufacturability
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Contrato para aumentar la cadencia de producción del JASSM: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2180277/
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AIR FORCE
Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $49,856,351 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00004) to contract FA8682-19-C-0008 to procure additional equipment and tooling needed to increase Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile production. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida, and is expected to be complete by March 31, 2023. This award is the result of sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2019 missile procurement funds in the full amount are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity.
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Raytheon espera recibir $10.000 millones derivados del "LRSO Weapon" a lo largo de todo el programa: https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 83.article