Should enemy helicopters, surveillance planes or armed drones be maneuvering to attack while circling above a U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship at seemingly unreachable ranges for the ship’s deck-mounted ...

National Harbor, Md -- The Navy is integrating a vertically-launched longbow Hellfire missile onto the Littoral Combat Ship as a way to give the platform more fire-power, service officials said ...

The Program Executive Office for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) began a series of tests on its modified Longbow Hellfire missile from a surrogate test platform, with a successful first test after some ...

Engineering development tests of modified Longbow Hellfire missiles for use on Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were successfully conducted in June, the U.S. Navy reports. The Longbow Hellfire missile ...

The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship will be armed and operational with deck-launched HELLFIRE missiles by 2020, a key step in a sweeping strategic move to expand the attack envelope across the entire ...

The Navy is not closing the door on integrating an Army missile into the weapons package for the sea service’s Littoral Combat Ship surface warfare mission package. The Navy plans to continue tests on ...

Destroying enemy helicopters on the open sea, hitting attacking enemy drones and countering opposing surface ships from safer stand-off distances are all combat missions now being emphasized by the ...

In 2011 the navy decided to equip LCS with a surface launched version of the Griffin air-to-surface missile. The Griffin was developed as an alternative to the Hellfire II, which weighs 48.2 kg (106 ...

The SSMM is a 24-shot vertical launch system designed to engage smaller vessels in close proximity to the LCS (e.g., swarms of speedboats) with “fire-and-forget” Longbow Hellfire missiles vertically ...

In late February, the U.S. Navy test-fired a new Surface to Surface Missile Module for the first time ever, aboard the U.S.S. Detroit*. The hellfire missile took to the sky off the coast of Norfolk, ...

The U.S. Navy has successfully completed structural testing of the Surface-to-Surface Missile Module (SSMM) that confirms that the weapon system can be installed and safely operated on the littoral ...

Here's What You Need to Remember: The U.S. Navy is fast-tracking a broad effort to arm its fleet of LCS ships with deck-mounted Hellfire weapons, offering new options, ranges and tactics for maritime ...