The US Successfully Tested An Incredible Anti-Ship Missile Today{large image}

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http://www.businessinsider.com/darpa-tested-new-anti-ship-missile-2013-9


A B-1B Lancer deploying a Long Range Anti-Ship Missile.

The U.S. military's revolutionary new anti-ship missile flew its first successful test flight today, according to a release from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

What the U.S. currently lacks is a ship-killing missile with both the ability to be launched from far away and the technological capacity to elude enemy ship defenses.

In 2009, DARPA began work on developing such a missile, and today the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile conducted its first successful test.

The missile was dropped from a B-1B Lancer, escorted by an F-18 Strike Eagle. It also has the ability to be launched from a Naval vessel or deployed from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/darpa-tested-new-anti-ship-missile-2013-9#ixzz2eCVC5PXk

[liberal_at_heart]

1. I find it ironic that the article is from business insider. Our defense is no longer about defense.

It's about business.

[IDemo]

4. Strictly speaking, our defense has been about offense for a very long time n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Strictly speaking it is about nothing but corporate welfare. Offensive or defensive potential is

irrelevant. In fact, if they can make it so it doesn't work at all, but is close enough to give the brass a hard-on, that's the real mother-load (See Osprey VTOL).

[IDemo]

7. Corporate welfare, yes, but not irrelevant

It would be exceedingly difficult for the Raytheons and Northrop Grummans to gin up profit generating opportunities based upon the specter of boat loads of Talibani arriving on the shores of Atlantic City. US military activity since WWll has been an offensive exercise almost exclusively.

[Scootaloo]

2. Maybe we can drop this on the hungry people in the US

Test the missile and do something about the poor! A neat little Swiftian solution, yes?

[tecelote]

3. Good point.

It might cost a lot more than feeding hungry people but when it's over, the hunger problem no longer exists.

[Egalitarian Thug]

5. More corporate welfare. How well does this, or any anti-ship missile,

stand up to the Aegis or similar knock-off systems?

Just more millions wasted to no good purpose.