Orbital ATK Delivers 100,000th HELLFIRE Rocket Motor
October 25 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Customer Ceremony at Allegany Ballistics
Laboratory in West Virginia Highlights Milestone and
Achievements
Company Continues to Develop Tactical
Propulsion Innovations to Improve Warfighter Safety
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies marked a significant milestone recently with the
delivery of its 100,000th AGM-114 tactical motor, the high
performance rocket motor that propels the highly successful
HELLFIRE® missile. The motor is currently in service with the U.S.
Armed Forces as well as 16 other allied nations, and is used on
dozens of platforms ranging from helicopters, aircraft, unmanned
aircraft, land combat vehicles and combat ships.
For more than three decades, Orbital ATK has designed and
manufactured the high performance, minimum-smoke HELLFIRE® missile
rocket motor at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) in Rocket
Center, West Virginia, and is the sole supplier of the rocket motor
used across the entire family of missile variants.
At a ceremony celebrating the milestone earlier this month at
Orbital ATK’s ABL facility, Col. Dave Warnick of U.S. Army, Program
Executive Office Missiles and Space, Joint Attack Munitions
Systems, thanked more than 250 employees and industry partners in
attendance who are a part of the HELLFIRE® program. “This is a
great program that has continued to deliver a quality tool, at the
quantity we need, to do our job and keep American soldiers safe,”
said Warnick referring to the increase in demand over the past few
years. “The HELLFIRE® is going straight from the factory to the
front lines where they are being utilized by our soldiers.”
Mike Kahn, president of Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group
echoed the sentiment. “Our responsibility to the warfighter drives
us to improve and innovate. We are dedicated to deliver the best
tactical propulsion and controls products to our customers and
continue to invest in our people and facilities to assure readiness
and overmatch for the future.”
Orbital ATK is upgrading the current version of the HELLFIRE®
rocket motor to include insensitive munitions, called the IM
HELLFIRE®. By incorporating reduced sensitivity propellants,
low-cost bonded end closure composite cases, and passive thermal
mitigation systems, Orbital ATK has developed a system that meets
all current propulsion interface requirements for the existing
HELLFIRE® and will provide enhanced safety for the warfighter.
Last year, the company broke ground on its new Large Tactical
Motor Manufacturing Facility in Rocket Center, West Virginia, which
will specialize in IM-Compliant motors and is scheduled to be fully
online by summer 2018.
Also in tactical missile propulsion, Orbital ATK is developing
rocket pulse motors to operate at extremely cold temperatures that
provide increased range and flexibility for both tactical and
defense applications. Likewise, the company is demonstrating
air-breathing hypersonic propulsion systems that will reduce the
time-to-target for tactical missiles while increasing flexibility
for the warfighter. The company maintains a number of
state-of-the-art hypersonic test facilities along the east coast to
expedite development of these groundbreaking capabilities.
For more information about Orbital ATK’s capabilities in
tactical missile propulsion and controls, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 13,000 people across the U.S. and in several
international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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