Two Rusty Dagger cruise missiles flew on Stations 3 and 8 on the wings of an F-16D during a March flight test.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
Three years ago, a small Fairfax, Virginia-based company named CoAspire decided to create a cruise missile that cost roughly $300,000 in the simple, familiar shape of a 500-lb. Mk.-82 gravity bomb. The concept defied a decades-long trend in the cruise missile market. Instead of small, cheap and easy...
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