MBDA's launch of the SPEAR high precision attack missile

[MBDA's Web site reported on July 9, 2012] Europe's leading missile systems company MBDA's 2012 Farnborough International Air Show to launch a high-speed fighter with a new high-precision attack weapons --- Lance missile (SPEAR) .

SPEAR is MBDA's development for the UK Ministry of Defence network-centric, low collateral damage, multi-target standoff strike weapons, suitable for future F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Group. High subsonic the SPEAR missile combat distance of over one hundred kilometers, can strike a variety of goals, including the fast-moving motor vehicles, main battle tanks (MBTs), reinforced construction, air defense troops and naval vessels missile launchers, etc..

SPEAR compact, about two meters in length, with all-weather multi-mode seeker, multi-effect warhead, has a data link global positioning / inertial guidance system (GPS / INS), and target data updates can be completed in the missile flight. Missile precision to meet the increasingly complex and demanding operational requirements. Turbojet propulsion to a fight against time sensitive targets required for high speed. Lance missile does not depend on the network, but compatible with the NEC (Network Enabled Capability) framework. SPEAR's name comes from the range of the British Ministry of Defense selected the precision attack effects (Selected Precision Effects At Range) capacity requirements. SPEAR is currently in the evaluation stage.

(Liang Zhicheng Industrial Electronic and Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology Information Institute)

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