By: sferrin - 12th January 2010 at 23:26
We conducted one test shot where the shaped charge penetrated 9+ feet of Class A hardened armor plate. We never got very far with warhead development because Wasp was cancelled due to cost.
Pull the other one. 😉
By: djcross - 12th January 2010 at 20:26
The Wasp mini-missile takes me back…the company I worked for at the time was under contract to Hughes to develop the warhead for Wasp. (We had previously developed GATOR electonic AT/AP mines and warhead for Sensor Fused Weapon).
The warhead was a cute little shaped-charge affair with a tantalum liner. We conducted one test shot where the shaped charge penetrated 9+ feet of Class A hardened armor plate. We never got very far with warhead development because Wasp was cancelled due to cost.
By: Distiller - 12th January 2010 at 20:01
Flicking through one of my old Salamander books (it smells like a church!) I saw that most of the NATO aircraft in the two-page loadout spreads include the WASP mini-missile.
Does anybody know why this programme died?
Why it was cancelled? Pure speculation: For one it might not have worked as envisioned and attacked all kind of things. Or it might have been the operational problem of visual target ID over longer ranges before launch that made the concept unworkable at that time. Or it might have been too expensive. Then also the (Army) Hellfire programme happened at the same time. Maybe also a question of philosophy, as the Air Force liked neither the A-10 not its mission and might not have been too keen to buy a weapon system almost exclusively for it. All kind of reasons thinkable.
By: SpudmanWP - 12th January 2010 at 17:29
Flicking through one of my old Salamander books (it smells like a church!) I saw that most of the NATO aircraft in the two-page loadout spreads include the WASP mini-missile.
Does anybody know why this programme died?
Hughes AGM-124 Wasp
By: sferrin - 12th January 2010 at 15:58
Flicking through one of my old Salamander books (it smells like a church!) I saw that most of the NATO aircraft in the two-page loadout spreads include the WASP mini-missile.
Does anybody know why this programme died?
hit designationsystems.net and Secret Projects. Lots of info on it.
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January 12, 2010 at 3:19 pm