- RATTLRS
The
Lockheed Martin RATTLRS ("Revolutionary Approach To Time Critical Long Range Strike") is an advancedcruise missile concept demonstration funded by theUS Navy with the view to develop technologies that would then be used to develop a successor to theBGM-109 Tomahawk . [ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/rattlrs.htm Revolutionary Approach To Time Critical Long Range Strike Project (RATTLRS)] ]Lockheed’s
Skunk Works is prime contractor, while Rolls Royce Liberty Worksis designing the YJ102R high-Mach turbine engine. The misslie's airframe is similar in size and shape to the engine nacelle of the SR-71. [ [http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2006/07/04/207615/mach-3-missile-advances.html Mach 3 missile advances -04/07/2006-Flight International ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2006/LOCKHEEDMARTINDEMONSTRATESPENETRATO.html]
* [http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/rattlrs.html Lockheed Martin RATTLRS at Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles]
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