{"id":16666,"date":"2025-03-10T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=16666"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:55:22","slug":"cmmt-el-misil-de-crucero-de-bajo-costo-de-lockheed-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=16666","title":{"rendered":"CMMT, el misil de crucero de bajo costo de Lockheed Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La experiencia de los recientes conflictos, alert\u00f3 sobre los altos niveles de consumo de munici\u00f3n de artiller\u00eda de tubo, as\u00ed como de cohetes y misiles, que superan con creces las capacidades de producci\u00f3n de la infraestructura disponible, incluso en los pa\u00edses m\u00e1s poderosos como EEUU o Rusia. Asimismo, los sofisticados misiles actuales en servicio, tienen muy altos costos y las capacidades de producci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n son reducidas. La empresa Lockheed Martin, desarrolla y eval\u00faa un sistema misil\u00edstico modular, de bajo costo y apto para multiplicidad de funciones. Denominado Common Multi-Mission Truck (CMMT) y sobre la base de un misil de crucero que opera en r\u00e9gimen subs\u00f3nico, se busca disponer de una plataforma aut\u00f3noma modular y multi \u2013 funci\u00f3n, que permita ser empleada en las m\u00e1s variadas misiones. Podr\u00e1 ser lanzada desde las plataformas a\u00e9reas, tanto desde ataque como de carga y helic\u00f3pteros, pero tambi\u00e9n desde plataformas terrestres MLRS existentes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Lockheed Martin has revealed more about its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/vision-for-future-manned-unmanned-air-combat-laid-out-by-skunk-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Multi-Mission Truck<\/a>\u00a0(CMMT, pronounced \u2018comet\u2019), a revised design based on its Speed Racer air vehicle concept, a missile-shaped uncrewed system you can read more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/39495\/heres-everything-we-know-about-skunk-works-secretive-speed-racer-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. The CMMT is now said to be a family of systems, intended to yield low-cost subsonic air vehicles designed for a wide range of missions and for launch from both air and ground platforms. The ethos is very much in keeping with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/cheap-cruise-missile-paired-with-affordable-seeker-from-ship-killing-smart-bomb-eyed-by-usaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ongoing U.S. Air Force push<\/a>\u00a0for cheaper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/new-cheap-cruise-missile-concept-flight-tested-by-silicon-valley-backed-start-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">easier-to-produce munitions<\/a>\u00a0that has been accelerated by the realities of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/conflicts-eating-into-critical-munitions-stockpiles-needed-for-china-fight-top-u-s-officer-in-pacific-warns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the current stockpile and its limited depth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing the Common Multi-Mission Truck (CMMT&#x2122;)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cc_HdnZoR4o\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lockheed is currently pitching CMMT in two basic configurations. The first is a missile that will be deployed via U.S. Air Force fighters, bombers, and transports. Concept artwork this week by Lockheed Martin shows CMMTs being launched from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/special-ops-c-130-tests-pallet-dropped-cruise-missiles-in-the-arctic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C-130 series<\/a>\u00a0airlifter (as seen at the top of this story) and from an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/jassm-stealth-cruise-missiles-now-on-the-table-for-ukraine-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F-16<\/a>\u00a0fighter. The second configuration is for a smaller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/army-wants-to-test-air-launched-drones-from-a-global-express-business-jet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range launched effect<\/a>\u00a0that will be deployed from rotary-wing platforms \u2014 the related concept artwork shows an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/uh-60-black-hawk-begins-ground-tests-with-far-more-powerful-t901-engines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-60 Black Hawk<\/a>\u00a0series helicopter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16667\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CMMT-head-on-1024x390.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CMMT-head-on-1024x390.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CMMT-head-on-300x114.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CMMT-head-on-768x292.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CMMT-head-on-1536x584.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CMMT-head-on.webp 2042w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A head-on view of the CMMT in flight. Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the 2025 Air &amp; Space Forces Association (AFA) Warfare Symposium today, Lockheed Martin also showed concept artwork of a ground-launched version of CMMT, with an example being fired from an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/land\/mobile-launcher-that-can-fire-four-times-as-weapons-as-himars-emerges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIMARS<\/a>) using one of its rocket pods. This version is apparently based on the second configuration of CMTT, but it\u2019s fitted with a supplementary booster for launching.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16668\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HIMARS-1024x732.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HIMARS-1024x732.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HIMARS-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HIMARS-768x549.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HIMARS.webp 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of a ground-launched CMMT, fired from a HIMARS launcher. Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for the air-launched version of the larger CMMT, Mike Rothstein, vice president of Strategy and Requirements, Air Weapons and Sensors at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control said at the AFA Warfare Symposium today that a potential palletized scenario could involve as many as 25 CMMTs. This compares with the nine palletized JASSM missiles used in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/42469\/our-best-look-yet-at-rapid-dragon-cargo-plane-launched-stealth-cruise-missiles-in-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Dragon<\/a>, a previous experimental effort that armed airlifters with cruise missiles but which is, broadly speaking, conceptually similar to CMMT.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16669\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nine-missiles-1024x606.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nine-missiles-1024x606.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nine-missiles-300x178.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nine-missiles-768x454.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nine-missiles.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An official Air Force model showing a Rapid Dragon pallet loaded with nine missiles. Joseph Trevithick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Rothstein confirmed that, over the last weekend, the company completed a CMMT drop test, making use of the latest iteration of Rapid Dragon to test the new store in what he described as \u201cmore of a lab test,\u201d involving a common pallet dropped under a parachute. This will be followed up by a planned free flight test of CMMT later this year, Rothstein said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Lockheed Martin has recently also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/2025\/cmmt-putting-affordable-mass-on-target.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">released more details<\/a>\u00a0about the development path for CMMT \u2014 which it says is \u201chighly adaptable and affordable\u201d and which \u201ccan be produced and delivered as fast as it is expended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">The ability to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/air-forces-cheap-and-fast-to-produce-long-range-missile-is-being-built-for-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">produce munitions at scale<\/a>\u00a0is something that is increasingly seen as a key requirement by the U.S. military. To try and meet this demand, Lockheed Martin says it benefited from 1LMX \u2014 a program to \u201cre-engineer its internal processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16670\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production-1024x392.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production-1024x392.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production-300x115.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production-768x294.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production-1536x588.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production-1920x736.webp 1920w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/production.webp 1922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two images showing the rapid prototyping effort for the CMMT program. Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">1LMX is said to be the largest internal program ever undertaken by the company and is focused on \u201cautomations and capabilities required to drive efficiency, increase velocity, and enhance \u2026 key captures and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">One of the first programs to leverage 1LMX was Rapid Dragon, another Air Force initiative in keeping with the Pentagon\u2019s doctrine of \u2018affordable mass.\u2019 Lockheed Martin and the Air Force started work on Rapid Dragon in early 2021 and, within the first 10 months, had conducted three customer exercises and a first flight.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Dragon went on to yield four live-fire strike missions from airlifters, two in the United States and two abroad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rapid Dragon Flight Test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F0Pj-0xYFzg\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">As Lockheed Martin was preparing Rapid Dragon for fielding, the company was also \u201cdeveloping affordable mass weapons to support the Air Force mission \u2014and a few others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">This includes CMMT, which Lockheed Martin says is chiefly a manufacturing program rather than a technology development effort. As such, the aim was to drastically reduce the normal development path, producing a low-cost design that was \u201c100 percent producible from the start.\u201d Once a scalable product is achieved, \u201cperformance-enhancing and mission-specific capabilities\u201d will be introduced later \u201cas use cases and threats emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">CMMT has an open architecture and modular design. This means it can be manufactured using distributed supply chains and production lines that can surge to meet customer demands. At the same time, new capabilities can be easily added as required. For this reason, too, Lockheed Martin typically refers to CMMT not as a missile but as an air vehicle since it can be fitted with different types of sensors as well as a warhead. Potentially, it could also be easily adapted as an air-launched decoy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16671\" style=\"width: 948px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/payloads.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"948\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/payloads.webp 948w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/payloads-300x170.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/payloads-768x434.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screengrab from an earlier Skunk Works video shows notional payloads inside the front end of a CMMT drone. Antennas or RF-transparent apertures or glazed low-observable \u2018windows\u2019 for electro-optics are shown on the side and bottom of the forward fuselage. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works capture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">By utilizing 1LMX, Lockheed Martin was able to reduce the time required to get CMMT to a preliminary design review by 50 percent, the company says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">At the same time, as mentioned, CMMT is not an all-new design, since it also draws from the earlier Speed Racer. A product of Lockheed Martin\u2019s Skunk Works advanced projects division, this was an experimental low-cost \u201cpathfinder\u201d design\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/39495\/heres-everything-we-know-about-skunk-works-secretive-speed-racer-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that was developed first<\/a>\u00a0to demonstrate new digital engineering and advanced manufacturing methods \u2014 techniques that were also rolled into 1LMX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Like CMMT, Speed Racer was based around a modular architecture that allowed it to be relatively readily reconfigured for different mission sets. Speed Racer was also designed to be a low-cost vehicle, with a planned unit cost significantly under $2 million, and was not intended to be recovered after a mission.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The older Lockheed Martin video below includes a rendering of the Speed Racer experimental vehicle, as seen in the thumbnail.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lockheed Martin StarDrive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVH71Cqh_Ew\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Back in July 2022, Lockheed Martin unveiled four distinct uncrewed aircraft designs, one of which was CMMT, with Speed Racer being disclosed as the basis for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">An official project video released by Lockheed Martin depicted an F-35\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/f-35s-speed-racer-drones-to-test-skunk-works-unmanned-teaming-vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launching a future CMMT<\/a>\u00a0from a wing pylon, a mode of employment that would negatively impact the jet\u2019s stealthy characteristics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16672\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cmmt-single.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cmmt-single.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cmmt-single-300x204.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cmmt-single-768x522.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMMTs seen in an earlier rendering with single offset air intakes and V-shaped tail assemblies. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Meanwhile, other similar designs have emerged, and it\u2019s notable that the current CMMT looks quite similar to Anduril\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/anduril-introduces-barracuda-m-that-aims-to-disrupt-the-cruise-missile-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barracuda<\/a>, a new family of what that company is calling \u201cexpendable autonomous air vehicles\u201d that are scalable, highly modular, and already being flight-tested. However, Barracuda is just one of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/cheap-cruise-missile-program-to-speed-up-with-replicator-initiative-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increasing number of cheaper cruise missiles<\/a>\u00a0now in the works, and this is an area that has attracted particular interest from smaller firms, including some brand-new players.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet-container\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=thewarzonewire&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1897301332559847561&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twz.com%2Fair%2Flockheeds-low-cost-cruise-missile-truck-is-now-in-testing&amp;sessionId=929ee9e29b283e083f1f1eddaaca4ff0a7c6fef2&amp;siteScreenName=thewarzonewire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1897301332559847561\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Overall, there\u2019s now a growing focus on less expensive, expandable, air-launched drones and munitions, driven by concerns about a potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific region. At the forefront of this is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/replicator-is-dods-big-play-to-build-thousands-of-autonomous-weapons-in-just-two-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Pentagon\u2019s Replicator initiative<\/a>, which is accelerating work on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/cheap-long-range-cruise-missile-designs-to-be-tested-by-air-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">low-cost air vehicles<\/a>\u00a0that could evolve into relatively cheap cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">\u201cAs we envision the environment that we have to work in, we understand that in a global conflict, and the kind of conflict we\u2019re going to have, maybe against a peer competitor, being able to get mass on targets is important,\u201d Rothstein said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">\u201cWe know we got to be able to produce at more rate,\u201d Rothstein continued. \u201cAnd we know we have to work not only with some of the exquisite high-end weapons that we do so well, such as JASSM and LRASM, but we are also listening and understanding that there\u2019s a need to bring more affordable mass to that target. Think of [CMMT] like a low-cost cruise missile.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16673\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/configuration-1024x578.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/configuration-1024x578.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/configuration-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/configuration-768x434.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/configuration.webp 1089w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork showing the general configuration of the CMMT, with its pop-out wings deployed. Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With a genesis that dates back several years, and with the experience of the Speed Racer and Rapid Dragon, Lockheed Martin will hope that its CMMT is well positioned for future success \u2014 especially the scalable mass production that is a central tenet of its design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/AIR\/LOCKHEEDS-LOW-COST-CRUISE-MISSILE-TRUCK-IS-NOW-IN-TESTING?UTM_TERM=THE%20WAR%20ZONE_WIRE_03.07.25&amp;UTM_CAMPAIGN=THE%20WAR%20ZONE_DEDICATED\/SALES&amp;UTM_SOURCE=SAILTHRU&amp;UTM_MEDIUM=EMAIL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>https:\/\/www.twz.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La experiencia de los recientes conflictos, alert\u00f3 sobre los altos niveles de consumo de munici\u00f3n de artiller\u00eda de tubo, as\u00ed como de cohetes y misiles,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16674,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions\/16674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}