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The Army's Joint Attack Munition Systems (JAMS) Project Office and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said they recently successfully fired a multipurpose AGM 114R Hellfire II Romeomissile with a live warhead and penetrated a brick-over-block target in its sixth proof-of-principle (POP) test.
The flight test, at Eglin AFB, Fla., demonstrated the Romeo's enhanced software capability and superior performance in a military-operations-in-urban-terrain scenario. The new Romeo's multipurpose warhead design enables the missile, with a designator spot laser, to seek out and defeat hard, soft and enclosed targets with outstanding success. The initial fielding of the Hellfire II Romeo is scheduled for late 2012.
"The AGM-114R baseline design is now defined and allows us to go into system qualification,"...