Hydra 70 - Wikipedia
The Hydra 70 family of folding-fin aerial rockets also includes smoke screening, illumination, and training warheads. Hydra 70 rockets are known mainly by either their warhead type or by the rocket motor designation, Mk 66 in US military service.
Northrop Grumman to produce Hydra-70 illuminating flares - Army Technology
Jun 4, 2021 · Northrop Grumman has received a contract to produce illuminating flares for the US Army’s Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions’ (TAGM) unguided Hydra-70 Rocket programme. The five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract was awarded by General Dynamics – Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS).
Northrop Grumman Continues Illuminating the Battlefield for US …
Jun 3, 2021 · Northrop Grumman will produce illuminating flares for GD-OTS that will be used for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions’ unguided Hydra-70 Rocket program.
obscuration, illumination and marking. Hydra 70 provides the Army with flexible and economical lethality that is tailorable to the mission for point engagements and suppression of light armored and unarmored High Value Targets at range. General Dynamics has produced more than eight million Hydra 70 rockets since 1996, in support of the Army’s
Hydra-70 Rocket System - Army Technology
Sep 18, 2020 · The Hydra-70 rocket system is a family of 2.75in unguided air-to-surface rockets derived from the Mk 4/Mk 40 folding-fin aerial rocket (FFAR) developed in the 1940s. It is the most commonly used helicopter-launched weapon system in the world.
Fitted to the MK66 MOD 4 motor, these warheads provide low-cost munitions capable of area suppression and defeating threats at extended ranges, as well as providing battlefield obscuration, illumination and marking. Operational ..........................................-50 ̊ to 150 ̊F (-46 ̊ …
Northrop to Provide U.S. Army with Illumination Flares
Jun 4, 2021 · Northrop Grumman will produce illuminating flares for General Dynamics – Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) that will be used for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions’ (TAGM) unguided Hydra-70 Rocket program.
Northrop Grumman to produce illuminating flares for U.S. Army’s Hydra …
Jun 4, 2021 · Northrop Grumman Corporation announced, Thursday, that it will produce illuminating flares for General Dynamics – Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) that will be used for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions’ (TAGM) unguided Hydra-70 Rocket program.
This highly modular rocket family incorporates several different mission-oriented warheads for the Hydra 70 variant, including high-explosive, anti-personnel, multipurpose submunition, red phosphorus smoke, flechette, training, visible-light illumination flare, and infrared illumination flare.
This bulletin provides supplemental maintenance level information on Rocket, 2.75-Inch, Flare: XM278 (IR) Illuminating Warhead with M442 Fuze, with MK66, Mod 2 Motor.