AGM-137 TSSAM
| AGM-137 TSSAM | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Type | Cruise missiles |
| Manufacturer | Northrop |
| development | 1986 |
| Unit price | about 728,000 to 2,062,000 US dollars |
| Technical specifications | |
| length | 4300 mm |
| Combat weight | 900 kg |
| span | 2500 mm |
| drive | Williams F122-WR-100 turbofan |
| Range | 185 km |
| Furnishing | |
| Target location | IIR, GPS , INS |
| Warhead | 450 kg |
| Weapon platforms | Air Force: B-1 , B-2 , B-52 , F-16 Navy: F / A-18 Army: M270 MLRS |
| Lists on the subject | |
On behalf of the US Army , the company began Northrop with the development of agm-137 tssam , a Stealth - cruise missiles .
The abbreviation TSSAM stands for Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile . The name thus reveals that the TSSAM was intended for the three major branches of the armed forces, Air Force, Navy and Army. In the Air Force and Navy it should be named AGM-137A and in the Army the name MGM-137B. In 1986 the development of AGM began at Northrop. There you could fall back on the experience gained with the TACIT BLUE program. A turbofan from Williams was chosen as the drive , which gave the TSSAM a range of around 185 km. Different warheads should be used. A warhead weighing 1000 pounds (450 kg) was provided for the Air Force and Navy, alternatively the cruise missile could be equipped with submunition (BLU-97 / B CEB). For the MGM-137, however, only the variant equipped with submunition BAT (Brilliant Anti-Tank) was intended.
But there were already technical problems with the construction of the first prototypes, which could not be resolved before the flight tests. If in 1986 it was assumed that you would have to pay 728,000 US dollars per TSSAM, in 1994 it was 2,062,000 US dollars. These high costs and the still existing technical problems caused the US Army to withdraw from the program in 1993. Instead, the MGM-140 ATACMS was developed , which is also equipped with the BAT submunition. At the beginning of December 1994, the Department of Defense finally ended the program . After that, the Air Force and Navy began developing the AGM-158 JASSM .
As early as 1991 it was announced that the US armed forces were working on a missile called the AGM-137. However, further details were not disclosed due to the confidentiality.