Hellfire is closer to $150K than $65K. The replacement JCM program is (was…) targeting a full rate production cost of $80K ($120K during LRIP).

Another system with good potential for MOUT ops such as CS would be something like LOCAAS, capable of being retasked and with sufficient endurance to wait out the target, but still offering low collatoral damage.

Yeah, but it’s no fun unless you use it…

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As I understand it, the frontrunner is now the C-37.

Keep in mind there are two requirements here. As already stated, the Navy may well merge the role into the P-8 program, or even the BAMS effort. Should a joint-service effort prove too hard, the Army could go back to the ERJ145, or even choose to pursue a common platform with FCA.

Looks like Kestrel’s a no-go; the Marines have reportedly taken the name for the US101 Presidential Helicopter.

There is now a questionmark over whether those W-3WA Sokols will ever be delivered.

Pave Low is already in line to be replaced by the CV-22 (deliveries 2006, EIS 2008), though it is also being offered for PRV as the PRV-22. The second phase of the PRV program specifies a target KPP speed of 300 kts, so the Osprey – although pricey – could offer a common solution to both phases of the program.

Lockheed Martin itself believes that the weight issue is well under control – as of the beginning of this year, the weight reduction program for the B had stabilzed at 2,250 lb, which equates to 3,600 lb of extra payload capability. The three-figure weight saving initiatives quoted in the AFA article are the exception to the rule – the average saving for each initiative pursued has been 5 lb.

IIRC, there was an AAM variant of SRAM considered at one stage.

Sferrin – IIRC also, the original ASALM specs were closer to M4.