{"id":70522,"date":"2025-02-19T20:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/02\/19\/army-stinger-missile-replacement-competition-heads-into-flight-tests\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:18:43","slug":"army-stinger-missile-replacement-competition-heads-into-flight-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2025\/02\/19\/army-stinger-missile-replacement-competition-heads-into-flight-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Stinger missile replacement competition heads into flight tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RTX and Lockheed Martin are heading into flight tests this year in a head-to-head competition to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/techwatch\/2023\/10\/09\/us-army-pursues-faster-more-survivable-stinger-missile-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\">a replacement for the U.S. Army\u2019s Stinger missile<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/04\/07\/us-army-initiates-plan-to-replace-stingers-with-next-gen-interceptor\/\" target=\"_blank\">pursuing a Stinger missile <\/a>replacement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/02\/22\/us-armys-short-range-air-defense-efforts-face-review-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">for short-range air defense<\/a> that can go faster, survive jamming and more easily hit tougher targets like drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service awarded RTX and Lockheed Martin with contracts to competitively develop the Stinger replacement in September 2023. The RTX-manufactured Stinger missiles are currently used in the Army\u2019s interim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/06\/15\/us-army-names-air-defense-system-after-soldier-killed-in-vietnam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense, or MSHORAD, system<\/a> and also in a man-portable configuration to provide air defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has long planned to pursue a next-generation interceptor for short-range air defense, but the effort has become paramount as Stinger missiles were sent to Ukraine in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service no longer builds new Stinger missiles, but it refurbishes old ones. To replenish its own stockpile, the Army would like to replace the old missiles with new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RTX announced it had completed 10 subsystem demonstrations of its Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor, or NGSRI, offering successfully in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese successful subsystem demonstrations are a crucial step in meeting the U.S. Army\u2019s range and performance requirements for this transformational short-range air defense capability,\u201d Tom Laliberty, the company\u2019s president of land &amp; air defense systems, said in the statement. \u201cWe are confident in our ability to rapidly deliver the Army an affordable, low-risk, highly producible NGSRI solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsystem tests included demonstrating that its advanced seeker\u2019s range exceeded that of the current Stinger in laboratory environments and outdoors. The company also proved its flight rocket motor could extend intercept range in engagements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new system also demonstrated greater range in detecting and identifying aerial targets, even in low-visibility environments and, in arena testing, the new Stinger\u2019s warhead showed \u201cprecise and repeatable lethality\u201d against a broad range of threat targets, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other demonstrations \u201caddressed critical missile functions including tracking, guidance, aerodynamic control, fuzing and safety,\u201d the statement notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new missiles will now head to U.S.<b> <\/b>soldiers and Marines for a touchpoint exercise where they will provide feedback, the company said. A system flight demonstration is also expected to happen later this year, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed Martin told Defense News that since it was awarded a contract to develop a Stinger replacement, it has conducted two soldier touchpoints, \u201cboth of which resulted in positive feedback from the warfighters present,\u201d Randy Crites, vice president of advanced programs for Lockheed Martin\u2019s missiles and fire control business, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed is preparing for multiple flight tests this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur solution brings performance improvements to mounted and dismounted MSHORAD operations and provides dismounted soldiers and marines a capability that rivals the mounted platform,\u201d Crites said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the Stinger competition is expected to take five years to develop and qualify the new interceptor and move into low-rate production, Maj. Gen. Frank Lozano, who runs Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, told Defense News in late 2023 shortly after contracts had been awarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first two years, each of the two companies will develop missiles and then build a \u201cvery small quantity\u201d of them, he said. Then, at the end of the period, the service will have a \u201cfly-off,\u201d Lozano added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If both missiles perform well, the Army will carry both vendors into the second phase of the rapid prototyping effort. During that phase, the Army will ask the teams to tweak and improve the missiles and build another round of prototypes. The competitors would then go through another fly-off round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, the service would select one vendor to move into production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, Lozano said, the Army plans to be flexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf one vendor does very well and the second vendor does very poorly, then we have that decision there at the end of the two-year time period to off-ramp one of the vendors and just proceed with a single vendor for the final three years of the program,\u201d Lozano said. \u201cWe\u2019d really not prefer to do that; we really want to keep that competition as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin and RTX are competing to develop the U.S. Army&#8217;s replacement for its Stinger short-range air defense missile it no longer 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