SLAMRAAM

The US Marine Corps conducted trial of surface-launched AMRAAM missiles during 1997, demonstrating intercept ranges of over 15 km.

[1] In February 2004, the US Army Aviation and Missile Command awarded Raytheon a contract to develop SL-AMRAAM.

[3][4] Since the missile is launched without the benefit of an aircraft's speed or high altitude, its range is considerably shorter.

[citation needed] On January 6, 2011, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the U.S. Army has decided to terminate acquisition of the SLAMRAAM as part of a budget-cutting effort.

[6] A more recent version of the SLAMRAAM program is the NASAMS High Mobility Launcher made in cooperation with Kongsberg, where the launch-vehicle is a Humvee (M1152A1 HMMWV), containing four AMRAAMs and two AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II each.