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First Ever Test of Rapid Dragon Missile System in Training Exercise

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“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” – Sun Tzu

Off the northern coast of Norway, approximately 400 miles from a Russian nuclear submarine port, U.S. Special Forces and NATO Partners will be conducting an exercise using the new Rapid Dragon palletized weapon system. It will involve using the Rapid Dragon system to launch a swarm of air-launched missiles from cargo aircraft like the C-130J Super Hercules. Rapid Dragon is designed to overwhelm an opponent by launching swarms of long-range missiles including the Joint Air-to-Surface Missile (JASSM) which has a range of approximately 230 miles and the JASSM-ER which has a range of 620 miles. The Rapid Dragon system also incorporates a weapons data link (WDL) for missile course correction after launch. It will be the first time a live fire of the Rapid Dragon system will take place in training. Inder Singh Bisht of The Defense Post writes (abridged):

The US Special Forces will conduct a live-fire exercise of airdropped cruise missiles this week over the Norwegian Sea, The Barents Observer has reported.

Updated: Video of test over the Norwegian Sea near Russia – DOD Video

The November 9-11 exercise off the coast of Northern Norway will involve cargo aircraft launching a swarm of air-launched missiles with the Rapid Dragon palletized weapon system.

The missile to be used in the exercise has not been revealed. However, the Rapid Dragon is designed to launch long-range strike weapons such as the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) en masse.

“We will demonstrate the weapon when training interoperability with our NATO partners. This is the first time a live fire of the system will happen in training,” US Army Public Affairs Officer Capt. Margaret Collins said.

Missile Launch

The launch involves the aircraft receiving targeting data through a beyond-line-of-sight command and control node with the aircraft-agnostic Battle Management System (BMS).

The BMS communicates the data to the palletized missiles, which are then airdropped, followed by a systematic missile release.

Explaining a missile launch last year, the USAF wrote, “its {missile} wings and tail, achieved aerodynamic control, and began a pull-up maneuver as it glided toward its new target.”

Provides Operational Flexibility

The system provides the flexibility to deploy long-range missiles en masse from non-traditional platforms without modification.

Planes such as the C-130J Super Hercules can take off from relatively short runways of 900 meters (2,953 feet), enabling missile deployment when longer runways are unavailable.

Exercise Near Russia

“Additionally, the retargeting methodology used is transferable to other strike platforms, potentially making all JASSM-capable strike assets more lethal in an increasingly complicated and dynamic near-peer conflict,” the USAF wrote in a statement last year.

Collins underlined that the exercise is not a signal to “Russia or any adversary,” despite the 150-km (93 miles) by 100-km (62 miles) exercise area being only 650 kilometers (404 miles) from Russian nuclear submarine ports on the Kola Peninsula.

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