New System to Test Firing Air-to-Surface Missiles from Ground

摘要

Moog Inc. is scheduled in March to test whether its new system will allow users to launch Hellfire missiles from combat vehicles and boats in addition to being fired by helicopters and airplanes. That capability has been on the Army's wish list for years, company officials said. Many companies make "stores management systems" - a collection of computers, sensors and other hardware and software used to launch and control precision-guided weapons such as missiles. Most systems are specific to a certain aircraft or vehicle, said Jason Reichard, Moog's director of integrated defense systems. Moog's system is designed to be agnostic to the model of missile and the platform it is fired from.