FASGW(H)/ANL ready for demonstration and manufacture phase, MBDA chief executive says

摘要

Mbda is Confident that its FASGW(H)/ ANL (Future Anti-Surface Guided Weapon [Heavy]/Anti-Navire Leger) is ready to begin the next stage of development. A Joint Assessment Phase has been under way since 2009. "The [Joint] Assessment Phase contract has now delivered a system design and the necessary sub-systems proof of maturity," said Chief Executive of MBDAAntoine Bouvier on 14 September 2011. Discussions now under way with the two national customers - France and the UK -are expected to lead to the demonstration and manufacture phase of the programme, he stated. High-speed wind tunnel trials of a representative scale model of the missile have confirmed the validity of the chosen design. This uses a novel propulsion layout in which the booster motor exhausts via the upper part of the rear fuselage, while the mid-body rocket sustainer has a downward canted ventral nozzle.