{"id":184662,"date":"2012-02-19T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/19\/next-generation-missile-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T02:12:00","slug":"next-generation-missile-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/19\/next-generation-missile-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Missile Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The missile, intended to replace both the AMRAAM air-to-air missile and the HARM air-to-ground missile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/news\/articles\/usaf-cancels-amraam-replacement-368249\/\">has been dropped from the Pentagon budget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The US Air Force has cancelled the next generation missile (NGM) meant to replace both the anti-air AIM-120 AMRAAM and the anti-radiation AGM-88 HARM, both mainstays of the USA and its international allies.<\/p>\n<p>The NGM programme, also formerly known as the joint dual-role air dominance missile and projected to cost up to $15 billion, was cancelled &#8220;for affordability reasons&#8221;, according to Gen Edward Bolton, USAF chief budget officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p>In order to achieve what are almost diametrically opposed roles, the AMRAAM is a 7&#8243; diameter missile which is designed to take a lofted trajectory to maximize range, and the HARM is A 10&#8243; diameter missile which takes a direct route to the target to minimize time to target, you have to develop a whole series quantum leaps in propulsion and lethality, and gets the entire weapons system onto the cost escalation-schedule slippage hamster wheel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing that this is canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The missile, intended to replace both the AMRAAM air-to-air missile and the HARM air-to-ground missile has been dropped from the Pentagon budget: The US Air Force has cancelled the next generation missile (NGM) meant to replace both the anti-air AIM-120 AMRAAM and the anti-radiation AGM-88 HARM, both mainstays of the USA and its international allies. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}