General Characteristics
- Primary Function: Land attack cruise missile
- Power Plant: Solid propellant rocket booster, turbojet or turbofan engine for sustained cruise flight.
- Range: 600 km (eventual goal of 1000 km with new turbo fan engine)
- Top Speed: 0.85 Mach
- Guidance: INS and commercial GPS with in-flight waypoints and corrected by digital maps/terrain matching and forward-looking imaging infrared (IIR) seeker with autonomous target recognition for terminal guidance.
- Launch Weight: 3,000-3,500 lbs includes solid rocket booster
- Precision: Within 12 m
- Warhead: 200 kg
- Date deployed: Unknown - approved for official low rate production as of 1/2008
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