The US Navy is enlisting industry expertise to field the Multi-mission Affordable Capacity Effector or MACE missiles, a cost-effective air-launched anti-ship weapon with extended range and increased lethality. test and field a long-range, network-enabled weapon system capable of launch from a F/A-18E and F-35A. The notice states that MACE should complement the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile or LRASM, the Lockheed Martin-made missile fielded on the US Navy’s F/A-18 and the US Air Force’s B-1B.

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