The limitations inherent with air transport, especially aircraft internal carriage, create difficult mobility challenges. The designers of the Lightweight MLRS at LTV Aerospace came up with a great ...

The missile pod(s) must be towed to overcome air transportability hurdles, the next challenge is how they can be loaded, unloaded, and transported to where they’re needed. The image below shows a ...

One of the original requirements was that the complex weapons must be in service, for the UK, that meant NSM and GMLRS. But whilst NSM does not seem to have much publicly available information on ...

Think Defence is a hobby, a serious hobby, but a hobby nonetheless. I want to avoid charging for content, but hosting fees, software subscriptions and other services add up, so to help me keep the ...

The FC/ASW (Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon) is a joint UK, French and (latterly) Italian development programme to develop a replacement for a number of air and surface launched weapons. In UK… ...

Think Defence is a hobby, a serious hobby, but a hobby nonetheless. I want to avoid charging for content, but hosting fees, software subscriptions and other services add up, so to help me keep the ...

Is mobility ever a bad thing? Probably not, but it always results in compromise. Where you draw that compromise line will depend on many factors, but for systems like GMLRS, the UK and other users ...

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