{"id":24289,"date":"2025-05-15T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=24289"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:33:45","slug":"first-public-presentation-of-the-us-navys-new-aim-174b-very-long-range-air-combat-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=24289","title":{"rendered":"First public presentation of the US Navy&#8217;s new AIM-174B very long-range air combat missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a ceremonial visit to Japan, as part of the annual Friendship Day held at Marine Corps Air Station, the US Navy made the first public presentation of the new AIM-174B very long-range air combat missile. The missile was loaded on an F\/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft of VFA-102 (Strike Fighter Squadron-102) of CVW-5 (Carrier Air Wing-5). This missile was declared operational in July 2024, in the wake of the \u201cRIMPAC 2024\u201d exercise. The AIM-174B or SM-6 ALC (Air Launched Configuration) first appeared in public in 2021 and has been undergoing continuous testing since then. The missile is a version of the RIM-176 Standard ERAM (Extended Range Active Missile) or SM-6 (Standard Missile-6) anti-aircraft missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AIM-174B was developed under the LREW (Long-Range Engagement Weapon) program of the US Air Force and the US Navy, which aims to develop a new very long-range air-to-air missile. In order to reduce technical risk, the LREW program provides for the use of proven and in-service systems with new technologies where necessary. Further details about the performance of the SM-6 ALC are not known. However, the designation AIM-174B means that it is a development of the RIM-176B Standard ERAM (SM-6 Block.1A) missile, which achieves a maximum range of over 200 kilometers, with some sources reporting a maximum range of over 450 kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a ceremonial visit to Japan, as part of the annual Friendship Day held at Marine Corps Air Station, the US Navy made the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[6944,2807,2152],"class_list":["post-24289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-aim-174b","tag-missile","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24291,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289\/revisions\/24291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}