ASALM (Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile)

Worth noting here that by the time the programme was cancelled, a missile from the SLAT/ASALM line was (by default) the front runner for the UK's SR(A).1244 Tactical Air-To-Surface missile. That version was called TIRRM - Tactical Integrated Rocket-Ramjet Missile - with an expected range of 520 to 700 km and an expected in-service date (in 1989) of 2001-2002.

https://www.york.ac.uk/media/politi...3 Ritchie & Walker Denuclearising the RAF.pdf
Scott Kenny said:
Standard kerosene is not particularly dangerous, and is used for ship fuel anyways.
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Weird kerosene might be of some concern, but there again if it had a particularly low flash point and high viscosity, probably not so much on the safety front. On the 'getting the damn missile to work properly in the Arctic' front, perhaps more so.
 
NMaude said:
It perturbs me how neither the ASALM nor the SLAT entered production, the ASALM would no doubt had the Soviets shitting bricks if it had entered service.
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Well, the Soviets had their own ASALM type project with the Kh-80/ 3M25A/M/N. They would have had had a response at the ready. In terms of shooting the thing down, S-300 would have probably the way to go, and maybe MiG-31 (although that was more a fly high and look down rather than a fly high and look up interceptor.)

Edit: I was wrong. The Kh-80 is completely different in terms of range and speed. My point about S-300V/MiG-31 still stands.
 
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iwantmoresources said:
Well, the Soviets had their own ASALM type project with the Kh-80/ 3M25A/M/N.
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Meteorit was a very different beast to ASALM, being a long range strategic cruise missiles used by stand-off bombers and submarines whilst ASALM was a relatively compact SRAM replacement to be used by penetrating bombers.
 
cccgong said:
Seems like Alasm might make a comeback

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-new...ch-for-mk-41-vls-launched-hypersonic-weapons/
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Nah. For starters they're not talking about air-breathers there. Secondly, they've tried making ASALM into a production vehicle, of one kind or another, almost since the day it was cancelled. I can think of three off the top of my head: a long range SAM for vertical launch at sea, an antiship missile target, and most recently LRASM-B. None went anywhere. Hell, the boosters for the target were used later on HyFly.
 
flateric said:
Source: AWST 18 March 1974
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Advanced Strategic Missile Concepts Shown

Air Force/Martin Marietta aerodynamic configurations for USAF's Advanced Strategic Air-
Launched Missile (ASALM) depict a variety of inlet/duct designs. More than 450 hr. of wind
tunnel tests have been conducted, with most of the tests at Arnold Engineering Develop-
ment Center to determine characteristics to support performance, guidance and control es-
timates. ASALM is designed as a replacement for the Boeing SRAM and as a defensive air-
to-air weapon for launch by USAF/Boeing E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System
(AWACS) aircraft against bombers and cruise missiles (AW&ST Mar. 11, p. 19; Mar. 4. p. 13).
All of the designs employ an integral rocket/ramjet propulsion system for use over a wide
range of cruise altitudes and speeds. Marquardt, the engine manufacturer, will test a full-
scale inlet, duct and combustor with a flight-type ramjet nozzle in a wind tunnel this month.
One configuration has an extended-length fuel tank for long—range supersonic cruise capa-
bility. The basic vehicle and propulsion unit have flexibility to accommodate a variety of
nose sections with alternate guidance and warhead subsystems. Martin Marietta has fabri—
cated a center section of a flight vehicle missile from lnconel 718 super alloy. Extensive
tests to determine thermal and load stress will begin soon, along with tests on a full-scale
forebody including payload section and inlet. The integral rocket/ramjet engine combustor,
manufactured by Marquardt, is in simulated flight tests in the Martin Controlled Flow Hot
Gas Facility at Orlando, Fla. The facility is used to provide simulated thermal, pressure and
flow rates and loads for the complete flight trajectory
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You can that about literally any of the programs cancelled and reduced during the peace dividends: seawolf, b2, f22, fb-23 (replacement for f-111)
 
ew33 said:
You can that about literally any of the programs cancelled and reduced during the peace dividends: seawolf, b2, f22, fb-23 (replacement for f-111)
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The cancellation of ASALM considerably predated the peace dividend, the US had moved on to SRAM-II by that point.

There was an ASALM derivative proposed for the British SR.1244 requirement for a WE.177 replacement, that did die as a result of the peace dividend.
 

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