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I'm not sure it even needs that. The motor on MSE is sophisticated and already has a boost phase and two-pulse sustain built into it. The MEADS launcher was just off vertical and demonstrated an over-the-shoulder launch with an MSE missile flying out "behind" the launcher. If MSE can do that, it can easily get up and out of a Mk 41 cell and turn itself over onto the target using the attitude control thrusters without needing a separate booster can of any sort. And one of LM's selling points for Naval PAC-3 MSE is that it could come off the same assembly line as the Army rounds with no differences in the missile itself (now that they've added S-band datalink to the baseline MSE). Adding a booster negates that, because the tail of the Navy missile has to be different to attach the booster, the wiring harness has to be different to talk to the booster, etc.[ATTACH=full]708769[/ATTACH]
I'm not sure it even needs that. The motor on MSE is sophisticated and already has a boost phase and two-pulse sustain built into it. The MEADS launcher was just off vertical and demonstrated an over-the-shoulder launch with an MSE missile flying out "behind" the launcher. If MSE can do that, it can easily get up and out of a Mk 41 cell and turn itself over onto the target using the attitude control thrusters without needing a separate booster can of any sort.
And one of LM's selling points for Naval PAC-3 MSE is that it could come off the same assembly line as the Army rounds with no differences in the missile itself (now that they've added S-band datalink to the baseline MSE). Adding a booster negates that, because the tail of the Navy missile has to be different to attach the booster, the wiring harness has to be different to talk to the booster, etc.
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