Lockheed Martin’s New Standalone Launching System Significantly Reduces Weapons Integration Costs [Extensible Launching System]

Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated the latest variant of its new launching system that maximizes the use of existing hardware and electronics to reduce the integration costs of weapons by more than 50 percent.

During a May 5 test at the Royal Australian Air Force’s Woomera Test Range in South Australia, the new Extensible Launching System (ExLS) standalone variant successfully fired two Nulka Offboard Countermeasure missile decoy test rounds.

One decoy was provided by the U.S. Navy and the other by the Nulka designer and manufacturer BAE Systems Australia.