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posted on Oct, 22 2004 @ 03:45 PM
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HUMRAAM is an advanced air-defense guided- missile system launcher combining five of Raytheons AMRAAM missiles on a humvee. THis low cost high- reliability launcher provides high firepower, fire- and- forget, non-line- of- sight engagment of tactical aircraft, and cruise missiles.


I think to mobility of the HUMVEE and the range and sophistication of the ABRAAM missile is a great thing to have combined what do you think?
raytheon.com

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posted on Nov, 4 2004 @ 12:36 PM
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Raytheon and Kongsberg of Norway have partnered to produce the HAWK-AMRAAM, a state of thee art customizable air defence system. This ground based system combines the proven performance capabilities of two of the world's best air defense missiles.--HAWK and AMRAAM in a distributed architechture plan. This pwerful combination icreases system survivability and supports mutiple simultaneous engagments against a wide variety of threats.

The HAWK-AMRAAM air defense sytem features HAWK and AMRAAM missiles on universal launchers , and a fire direction center that controls target detection, idenification, threat ordering, engagment, and kill assesment, as well as short range air defense cueing. The system includes the AN/MPQ-64 sentinel radar -- a modern 3-D pencil beam radar with multi-target tracking capability-- and the HAWK AN/MPQ-61 high power illuminator for target tracking and illumination.
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I think the range of the AMRAAM and power of the AMRAAM coupled with the all wealther capability, and advanced low to medium altitude capability of the HAWK, coupled with the Sentinel radar, and the HAWK high power illuminator is a very good mix.
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posted on Nov, 4 2004 @ 08:07 PM
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Wow. AMRAAMs on a Humvee. I though that the Avenger version of the Humvee was nasty enough. AMRAAMs are excellent missiles, long range, high accuracy, fire and forget, those are some of the AMRAAMs best qualities. Just when Migs thought the skys were safe. The HAWK-AMRAAM idea sounds pretty cools too. The versatility of these weapons will be their greatest strengh.



posted on Nov, 6 2004 @ 04:45 PM
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Here is a link to the norwegian defense contractor helping lockheed martin build the HAWK- AMRAAM missile.
konsberg.com

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