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Rapid Dragon top overall winner in Aviation Week Program Excellence Awards
A C-17A conducts a standard cargo airdrop of the Rapid Dragon Palletized Effects Deployment System during an experimentation flight. Rapid Dragon is the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office’s Palletized Effects campaign that explores the feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping palletized effects from existing airlift aircraft, such as a C-130 and C-17, without requiring modifications to the aircraft. (Courtesy photo)
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Rapid Dragon top overall winner in Aviation Week Program Excellence Awards
Lockheed Martin’s Dr. Deanelle “Dee” Hidalgo, deputy director, Air-to-Ground Missile Systems/Rapid Dragon, and Dr. Dean Evans of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s, or AFRL, Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office, or SDPE, are the project managers cited in the Rapid Dragon award. Lockheed Martin and AFRL’s SDPE office, or SDPE, received top honors for the Rapid Dragon Palletized Munitions campaign at the Aviation Week Network 2023 Program Excellence Awards, announced Nov. 8, 2023. (U.S. Air Force graphic)
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Rapid Dragon is a palletized munitions experimentation campaign exploring the feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping long-range palletized munitions from unmodified existing airlift platforms, such as the C-130 and C-17. In this photo from a test in November 2021, a cruise missile is released from a pallet and deploys its wings and tail. Lockheed Martin’s Rapid Dragon efforts have made the company a finalist in Aviation Week Network’s 2023 Program Excellence Awards Special Projects category. (Courtesy photo)
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AFSOC deploys Rapid Dragon over Emerald Coast
Airmen and Riggers with the 1st Special Operations Squadron Logistics Readiness Squadron load a Rapid Dragon Palletized Weapon System aboard an MC-130J Commando II at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Dec. 13, 2021. The Rapid Dragon Program demonstrates the ability to employ weapons using standard airdrop procedures from cargo aircraft anytime and anywhere. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Esau)
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AFSOC deploys Rapid Dragon over Emerald Coast
Airmen and Riggers with the 1st Special Operations Squadron Logistics Readiness Squadron load a Rapid Dragon Palletized Weapon System aboard an MC-130J Commando II at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Dec. 13, 2021. The Rapid Dragon Program demonstrates the ability to employ weapons using standard airdrop procedures from cargo aircraft anytime and anywhere. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Esau)
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AFSOC deploys Rapid Dragon over Emerald Coast
Airmen and Riggers with the 1st Special Operations Squadron Logistics Readiness Squadron load a Rapid Dragon Palletized Weapon System aboard an MC-130J Commando II at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Dec. 13, 2021. The Rapid Dragon Program demonstrates the ability to employ weapons using standard airdrop procedures from cargo aircraft anytime and anywhere. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Esau)
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Once the Palletized Munition Deployment System was stabilized under the parachutes, the production long range cruise missile STV and mass simulants were released sequentially, timed for safe separation between munitions. The photo shows a successful separation of a STV from the sabot following the weapon release, followed by the deployment of the STV’s control surfaces (wings and tail). (Courtesy photo)
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An airdropped Palletized Munition Deployment System carrying a production long range cruise missile STV and three mass simulants. The photo shows a cruise missile in the Deployment Box immediately after being airdropped from an MC-130J. (Courtesy photo)
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U.S. Air Force personnel load a Rapid Dragon deployment system onto an MC-130J aircraft ahead of an airdrop. Rapid Dragon is compatible with standard airlift inventory systems and provides a roll-on, roll-off capability with no aircraft modifications. (Courtesy photo)
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The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office took steps forward in April in making the Air Force’s new Precision, Navigation and Timing concept of operations a reality as it demonstrated fused PNT technologies within an Agilepod during six successful Phase I sorties on an airborne testbed in Centennial, Colorado, and successfully fit-tested the configuration on a T-38 at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, ahead of planned Phase II flight tests in August. (Courtesy photo)
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