GRIZZLY Containerized Launcher Completes Multiple Live-Fire Launch Tests

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) completed both the first integrated HELLFIRE missile live-fire and vertical-launch test from the company’s new containerized GRIZZLY launcher.

THE BIG PICTURE
During the tests, the launcher demonstrated its ability to load and launch a missile from a 10-foot Tricon container. Built in just six months from proven weapon and launcher architectures, including the fielded M299 system, GRIZZLY delivers cost-efficient, rapid-mobility and low-observable distributed expeditionary weapon delivery capability. This provides a purpose-built asymmetric capability that seamlessly augments traditional artillery, point-defense and missile-launch systems, enhancing both flexibility and lethality.

WHY IT MATTERS

• Confirming real-time trajectory: These tests validated GRIZZLY’s launch capability by completing all requirements. The Lockheed Martin team will continue to work with the U.S. government to refine the ongoing development of the system.
• Cost-effective integration: The launcher uses commercial off-the-shelf materials, reducing logistics footprint and acquisition cost. By leveraging proven weapon and launcher architectures, GRIZZLY shortens acquisition cycles while minimizing logistics footprints.
• Future readiness: As a highly transportable launcher, GRIZZLY is command and control and sensor agnostic, providing an affordable and easily relocatable launcher solution to support any service or mission, anywhere.
• Continuous refinement: The speed of these tests continues to refine the on-going development of the system, and data collected permits rapid insertion of product improvements that best supports U.S. customer needs.

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE
“This is an example of how our Lockheed Martin team is leading innovation for our customers’ needs,” said Randy Crites, vice president, Lockheed Martin Advanced Programs. “Our first live fire tests come just six months after the program began research and development, through internal Lockheed Martin investment, demonstrating our focus on quickly delivering a mobile and versatile launcher capability to defeat evolving threats."

“GRIZZLY provides the customer versatility and flexibility for their needs, as well as an element of mobility and discreteness for offensive and defensive fires,” said Crites.