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Home» News»US Navy Orders Additional GQM-163A Coyote Sea Skimming Target Vehicles from Northrop Grumman
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A GQM-163 “Coyote” Supersonic Sea Skimming Target (SSST) launches from Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in Virginia Sept. 12 as part of the fleet missile exercise (MSLEX). (NASA photo)

US Navy Orders Additional GQM-163A Coyote Sea Skimming Target Vehicles from Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a production contract option for 18 additional GQM-163A “Coyote” supersonic sea-skimming target vehicles.

Naval News Staff 14 May 2021

Northrop Grumman press release

This award represents the first of three options that can be exercised against the full-rate production contract awarded last year. The $55.4 million award brings the GQM-163A targets ordered to date to 218.

“We are committed to supporting U.S. Navy fleet readiness with our high performance, supersonic Coyote target vehicles. Our design integrates a solid-fuel, air-breathing ducted rocket propulsion system with high performance avionics capable of emulating multiple scenarios to prepare and protect our warfighters against evolving threats.”



Rich Straka, vice president, launch vehicles, Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman designed and developed the Coyote starting in the early 2000s, with the first flight in 2003. The company has since delivered 124 targets to the U.S. Navy and successfully launched them 81 times. To create efficiencies and save time for the production of this target system, the company uses 3D printing technology to build mockups and tooling, and to prototype design modifications.

The Coyote program is managed by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland. The Coyote provides the Navy with a cost-effective target to simulate advanced supersonic anti-ship cruise missile threats. It can be used as a Mach 2.5+ sea skimming target or as a Mach 3.5+ diving target from an altitude of 52,000 feet; the target vehicle is also able to perform high G turns.

The Coyote is designed and built at Northrop Grumman’s state-of-the-art launch vehicle production facility in Chandler, Arizona and launches from San Nicholas Island, California; Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii; White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; and Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.

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