The Fire Shadow Project: A Big Step Towards Rapid Acquisition
31 October 2008
Akram Ghulam is the Business Head of the Indirect Fire Precision Attack (IFPA) Programme at European Missile Systems Company MBDA, and Peter Tomlinson is the IFPA IPT Leader at MoD DE&S, UK. In this article, they describe the methods used by Team Loitering Munitions to develop and field the Fire Shadow loitering munition much more quickly than has been the norm, and the principles that they adopted.