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LOCKHEED MARTIN CONDUCTS THREE SUCCESSFUL TESTS OF THE GUIDED MLRS UNITARY ROCKET
DALLAS, TX , January 10, 2006 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully conducted three flight tests of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rockets recently in three separate missions at White Sands Missile Range, NM. Test objectives included demonstrating the GMLRS Unitary rocket in the point detonate, delay and proximity modes at short and long range. The GMLRS Unitary warhead has a tri-mode fuze which allows airburst, point-impact and delay detonation modes. These missions were part of the Production Qualification Test (PQT) flight test series of the GMLRS Unitary Rocket, which is manufactured at Lockheed Martin’s Camden, AR, facility.
“These missions were production qualification, man-in-the-cab launches of the GMLRS Unitary rocket, and all three flights met our expectations for extreme accuracy,” said Al Duchesne, director - MLRS Rocket Programs at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “These tests demonstrated the capability of the GMLRS Unitary Rocket against tactical targets, collecting valuable information for its use on the battlefield.” Lockheed Martin received a $119 million contract to conduct System Development and Demonstration (SDD) for a GMLRS variant with a single warhead in October 2003. The SDD contract includes 86 rockets, 71 of which are flight articles, with the balance supporting test and other activities. The contract also provides test hardware to support 26 flight tests for an initial configuration and 39 flight tests of a follow-on configuration.
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LOCKHEED MARTIN/NETFIRES LLC SUCCESSFULLY TESTS LOITERING ATTACK MISSILE WARHEAD
Dallas, TX, January 9, 2006 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], part of the NetFires LLC with Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN], recently performed eight successful tests of the Non-Line-of-Sight – Launch System’s Loitering Attack Missile Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator warhead. The tests proved the warhead’s lethality against a wide variety of targets. Following the first four-tests series reported in July, this latest test series took place at Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, NM, and included five warhead events to characterize lethality firing through the Loitering Attack Missile’s aerodynamic skins. All warhead events successfully achieved required pattern and penetration with margin into armor witness plates. Three additional warheads were expended in insensitive munition (IM) screening also at Socorro, meeting cook-off and bullet impact expectations. IM configuration enhancements help minimize the probability of inadvertent detonation, helping limit damage to the weapon platform, logistics systems or personnel when a munition is subjected to unplanned events such as heat, shock or impact.
“These tests are important to the warfighter for two reasons: we demonstrated the effectiveness of this warhead against a range of targets and we passed three initial IM tests,” said Glenn Kuller, director – Netted Fires at Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control. “These tests once again demonstrate LAM’s warhead readiness and maturity to move forward.”
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