Meet the SLAM-ER

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The SLAM-ER is fitted to an F/A-18C Hornet

A range of 275 kilometres, a 500 pound warhead and accurate to within a metre

Capable of hitting a car moving at highway speeds from the next country

The Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response weapon

The concept of a missile being fired with a target-of-opportunity route to the target area...

The original SLAM - over 700 have been upgraded to SLAM-ER spec

The SLAM-ER during testing was found to be devastatingly accurate

Article Summary

April 2, 2006 Meet the appropriately named SLAM-ER the Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response weapon. The most accurate weapon in the U.S. Navy inventory, the SLAM-ER, is an air-launched, day/night, adverse weather, over-the-horizon missile, which can be used in fire-and-forget mode, in which case it will use GPS to deliver its 500-pound warhead, with frightening precisionanywhere within 275 kilometres from its launch point. The clever aspect of the SLAM-ER though, is that it can use the warfighter-in-the-loop meaning it can fly a pre-planned or target-of-opportunity route to the target area and be retargeted in flight by using global positioning system data and an infrared seeker with an advanced data link. The SLAM-ER is also deadly accurate at hitting moving targets travelling at highway speeds.

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