Story ID: 743_Thales FF LMM.doc
Thales Unveils Lightweight, Unpowered Missile
By: David Donald
Caption: The free-fall light multi-role missile is just 28 inches long, lacks a rocket motor and has fixed instead of folding wings.
Word Count: 122
Thales has developed a 13-pound, unpowered, glide weapon that is especially suitable for application to UAVs and light attack aircraft.
  
Known as FFLMM (free-fall light multi-role missile), the weapon draws on many of the components developed for the powered LMM weapon that Thales is producing for the Royal Navy’s FASGW(L) requirement, but is much shorter (just 28 inches in length), as it lacks a rocket motor, and has fixed instead of folding wings.
  
The FFLMM is being displayed here at the Thales exhibition, as well as under the wings of the Britten Norman Defender and Beechcraft AT-6. Thales has partnered with Textron for the U.S. market, where FFLMM will be branded as the Fury.