Army asks Lockheed Martin to build JAGM air-to-ground missiles with multi-mode guidance

Missile experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. will build next-generation air-to-ground missiles under terms of a $49.6 million contract. Officials of the Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., are asking the Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control segment in Orlando, Fla., to build a new batch of the Joint-Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). Lockheed Martin is developing the JAGM for launch from the Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, the Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Navy MH-60R helicopter, and the Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter. JAGM is to replace U.S. inventories of Airborne TOW, Maverick, and Hellfire air-to-ground missiles.