What became of….?

While going through a book “Modern Airborne Missiles”, by Bill Gunston, published in 1983, by Salamander, I found out that there were several very large and important projects at the time, which never went much further thant the prototype stage. so I would like to ask if anybody knows what became of:

1.) ASALM (Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile): which was – according to Gunston – in 1974 one of the larger research programmes of the USAF. It was envisaged as eventuall Bomber Defense Missile, but also was capable of “offensive delivery”, should’ve became compatible with ASRAM launchers of B-52s, and being nuclear-typed. Producers were McDonnell Douglas and Martin Marietta.

2.) Piranha: produced by CTA Instituto de Atividades Espaciais, in Brazil, this AAM has been developed for the Brazilian Air Force since 1979, and had a cooled IR-detector.

3.) SRAAM: developed by British Aerospace Dynamics, first as “Taildog”, in the early ’70s (contract terminated in 1974), then replaced by a low-key tech demonstration programme, with first test-shots fired in April 1977. “Subsequent firings proved SRAAM’s unparalleled manoeuvrability, which can include a 90° turn immediately on leaving the launcher” (hopefully not in the direction of the aircraft which fired it). In August 1977 AIM-9L was chosen for British use, but the program was “keept alive”…(or, not?).

4.) HVM: Hyper-Velocity Missile, developed by Vought Corp. Supposedly primarily a ground based anti-armour weapon, “which could later be fired from tactical aircraft, including helicopters”. HVM was supposed to “kill purely by kinetic energy, the forebody containing a penetrator designed to pass through multiplate and other forms of advanced armour”. It was to be “guided by electronically scanned lidar (laser radar)”.

5.) P4T: “since 1980 BAe Dynamics has been studying this long-range cruise missile which was initially derived from Sea Eagle…powered by TRI 60 turbojet, but since early 1981 parallel studies have been made of a supersonic cruise model powered by the TRI 80.”

This is one of the best:
6.) STM: also produced by Vought and looked very much like Russian Kh-31 (but already in the ’70s)! “Following an earlier LVRJ (low-volume ramjet) programme Vought has achieved god results under Navy contract with this long-range research missile which uses advanced air-breathing propulsion to maintain full speed and manoeuvrability all the way to the (ship) target….STM is expected to led to the next-generation anti-ship stand-off missile. Text flights from April 1979 onwards have used an A-7 as launch aircraft.”

But this one was certainly the most interessting, as it seems to have been short of the IOC when terminated:
7.) Wasp: looking like an AGM-65, but much smaller (hardly 59in/1.5m, with a body diameter of 8in/203mm), built by Hughes Aircraft, which won the contract over Boeing in 1982. Described as “The first ASM ever developed with the ability to identify and aim itself at tactical targets”, Was was “cheap enough to deploy in swarms” in a fire-and-foget mode, “while the launch aircraft stays safely out of sight behind a hill and away from the land battle area”. The standard launcher “is about the size of a 370-US gal drop tank, weighing almost 2.000lb/900kg, has six tubes each loaded with two missiles”! “Trials with the homing head mounted in a pod under a Sabreliner at Eglin AFB in 1982 showed that the seeker repeatedly found the targets while flying over strong ground clutter”. All 12 rounds in a pod “can be fired in 2s”.

Gunston finished with: “The F-16 normally carries two pods, as can the Harrier, Jaguar, Mirage 5 and Alpha Jet, the F-111, A-10 and Tornado would normally carry four. The flight testing began in November 1982 and the programme has been so successfful a prduction decision could be taken in late 1983.

Souds like a terrific weapon, now being badly missed in many Air Forces. What became of the Wasp?

Thanks
Tom

PS
Just a short remark to show how long does it takes for some weapons: both AIM-120 and ASRAAM were then also in the developement stage and “short” of reaching the IOC: but, AIM-120 reached the IOC in 1991 or so, and ASRAAM is still not “on the shelf”…