OTO-Breda is advertising a stealthy alternative (apparently also a codevelopment with Matra), which it calls TESEO Mk 3. This weapon meets an Italian navy requirement for a TESEO (Otomat) 2 replacement. The project was announced at the 1993 Paris Air Show, and a model was displayed for the first time at Bourget Euronaval in October 1994. At least some of the low-observable technology comes from Matra's Apache ASM. The turbojet missile cruises at high subsonic speed and approaches its target at transonic speed. Mid-course guidance is inertial, with terminal radar and IR seekers. RAM is used in the blended airframe [with faired shark nose, for the paired seekers] and midbody cruciform wings extending from four air intakes; it also has cruciform rear fins, with two boosters aft. Maximum range is to exceed 300km, almost twice that of Otomat 2.
In March 1996, it was reported that the U.S. Navy was considering joint development of a next-generation missile, Ulisee, based on TESEO 3 technology (a decision was expected in the fall of 1996). A joint OR was drafted after an MoU was signed in November 1995. Ulisee would enter service about 2003-2005. In U.S. service it might be a SLAM-ER successor, and might be carried aboard naval aircraft. The Italian version would equip both ships and aircraft, including the future MPA and the Tornado; it might also equip AV-8Bs, Eurofighters and the AMX. The air-launched variant would have a range of over 300km (160nm), the ship-launched variant 250 km. It would cruise at Mach 0.88 and be boosted to Mach 0.95 for its attack. Total weight would be 700 to 800 kg. Ulisee would presumably be one alternative to the Harpoon 2000 described below. [snip]
The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems, 1997-1998
