{"id":128015,"date":"2021-09-23T19:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/boeing-unveils-long-range-air-to-air-missile-concept"},"modified":"2021-09-23T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:22:46","slug":"boeing-unveils-long-range-air-to-air-missile-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/boeing-unveils-long-range-air-to-air-missile-concept","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Unveils Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boeing-unveils-long-range-air-to-air-missile-concept2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boeing displayed a Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile (LRAAM) concept at the annual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, this week.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage missile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/42454\/boeing-unveils-new-two-stage-long-range-air-to-air-missile-concept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> has a \u201ckill vehicle\u201d attached atop a rear booster section. The end of the missile is ejected after the initial burst, igniting the front section and propelling it to the target.<\/p>\n<p>According to <i>War Zone<\/i>, Boeing began development of the concept in response to the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/air-force-seeking-faster-longer-range-air-to-air-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broad Area Announcement<\/a> (BAA) last year requesting novel solutions for faster, longer-range air-to-air missile development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing displayed a Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile (LRAAM) concept at the annual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, this week. The two-stage missile reportedly has a \u201ckill vehicle\u201d attached atop a rear booster section. The end of the missile is ejected after the initial burst, igniting the front section and propelling it to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}