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JASSM Completes Successful Flight Test

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

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A Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) completed a Product Upgrade Verification (PUV) flight test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on Sept. 18. The missile, produced by Lockheed Martin [LMT], successfully navigated through a preplanned route and struck its intended target. PUV flight tests are designed to test new hardware. The primary test objective was to demonstrate Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver performance in a jamming environment. Earlier in the year, JASSM was successful in 14 of 16 flight tests…

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