Date posted: 10/08/2008*

Recently NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Missile Systems and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, successfully conducted Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System (NLOS-LS) Precision Attack Missile (PAM) seeker captive-flight tests at Eglin AFB, Fla.

“The success of these captive-flight tests confirm that NLOS-LS can reliably move forward to Navy-guided flight tests,” said Capt. Mike Good, program manager for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission modules. “This advanced weapon system provides a single system solution to counter the asymmetric swarm attack and moving target threat and minimizes collateral damage.”

The successful PAM seeker captive flight tests represent a significant milestone for both the weaponization goals of LCS and the NLOS-LS program. NLOS-LS PAM and Container Launch Unit have been selected as a surface warfare weapon for the LCS, the Navy’s next generation multi-mission ship.

“These tests, during 74 missions, proved the missile seeker's ability to detect and track Navy targets operating in Sea State 3,” said Scott Speet, Raytheon’s NLOS-LS program director and executive vice president of NetFires LLC. “NLOS-LS, a joint Army and Navy program, is part of the surface warfare package for its Littoral Combat Ship “plug-in” modules and fills the Army’s capability gap for precision engagement of moving and stationary targets in open and complex terrain.”

The NLOS-LS is one of the 14 Future Combat System core systems. As part of the Future Combat System, the NLOS-LS will meet the requirements of the Army’s future brigade combat teams (BCT) by providing increased capability for the current force’s modular BCT.

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