Post; APKWS II Rocket

Missileer · December 16th, 2005

This is one of only two projects I worked on from concept to first fire. Originally, it was the Low Cost Precision Kill rocket made from a Hydra-70, 2.75 inch dumb rocket that we fitted with a laser guidance system using circuitry from a Paveway smart bomb. Later we added a radar guidance module. It's funny how a simple program evolved into this when it was moved from our facility in Texas to the "home office" in Tucson. We do all the hard work and they bolt on a few whistles and claim it as their own.

http://www.spacewar.com/news/miltech-05zzzzp.html

A Raytheon-led team completed a series of sled and arena and fuse sled tests, successfully demonstrating a low-cost lethality solution for its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) design.

December 16th, 2005
Missileer Nuclear Duck Hunter Gear	Post; APKWS II Rocket This is one of only two projects I worked on from concept to first fire. Originally, it was the Low Cost Precision Kill rocket made from a Hydra-70, 2.75 inch dumb rocket that we fitted with a laser guidance system using circuitry from a Paveway smart bomb. Later we added a radar guidance module. It's funny how a simple program evolved into this when it was moved from our facility in Texas to the "home office" in Tucson. We do all the hard work and they bolt on a few whistles and claim it as their own. http://www.spacewar.com/news/miltech-05zzzzp.html A Raytheon-led team completed a series of sled and arena and fuse sled tests, successfully demonstrating a low-cost lethality solution for its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) design. __________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill