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Everything We Learned About Lockheed's "QuadStar" Stinger Missile Replacement
Lockheed's QuadStar and a design from Raytheon are vying to win the Army's Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor competition.
Lockheed Martin For NGSRI, the Army has said in the past that it wants a new missile able to “provide improved target acquisition with increased lethality and ranges over current capability,” but with the same general form factor as Stinger so it can be fired using existing launcher architecture. US Army Murphy also highlighted additional overarching challenges when it comes to developing any next-generation surface-to-air missile system that is capable of being employed in a man-portable configuration effectively and affordably against a broad swath of target sets. Last week, the Army did interestingly highlight separate work it has been doing since 2022 on an air-breathing rocket ramjet propulsion system that could fit in a Stinger-sized missile as part of a science and technology effort called Red Wasp.
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