L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) today debuted a pack of launched effects vehicles, demonstrating the company’s ability to respond to the U.S. Department of Defense’s urgent need for advanced, capable and affordable munitions it can employ across services and domains. Red Wolf™ and Green Wolf™ are the first in L3Harris’ expanding family of multi-role vehicles that can easily integrate and launch from air, ground or maritime-based platforms. Red Wolf is a kinetic platform for long-range precision strikes, while Green Wolf is an electronic warfare platform equipped with electronic attack and detect, identify, locate and report capabilities. Both vehicles are flexible, modular and feature advanced software for in-flight collaboration and re-targeting. They also support swarming capability of autonomous aircraft. L3Harris designed, developed and built the vehicles over the past five years and completed more than 40 flights with them. The platforms can be recoverable, providing flexibility to develop and integrate different payloads. The company will build dozens of systems as part of low-rate initial production by the end of 2025, supported by infrastructure expansions and automation enhancements.
“Our launched effects ‘wolf pack’ provides U.S. military branches – regardless of platform – with a significant advantage in closing long-range kill chains, defeating adversarial threats in challenging environments and protecting assets,” said Ed Zoiss, President, Space and Airborne Systems, L3Harris. “The Red Wolf and Green Wolf are lethal, modular, affordable and ready to hunt.”
Flight testing of L3Harris’ launched effects began in 2020 and since then, the vehicles have successfully launched from crewed and uncrewed fixed-wing, rotorcraft and ground-based platforms. They also are capable of rocket-assisted launches from ground or sea platforms. The company high-altitude, highest-speed jet employs at altitudes above 40,000 feet, with industry-leading propulsion maturity and demonstrated engine starts up to 40,000 feet without the use of pyrotechnics. Its modular nose bay allows up to 300 cubic inches of volume for kinetic and non-kinetic payloads. Additional jets round out the portfolio, filling low-altitude missions. A proven optional parachute recovery system enables quick in-theater refurbishment for back-to-back flights. This also allows warfighters to launch multiple flights, utilize electronic warfare payloads, and reduce per-mission costs without compromising the vehicle or payload effects.
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company, defense contractor, and information technology services provider that produces products for command and control systems, wireless equipment, tactical radios, avionics and electronic systems, night vision equipment, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems and products, ocean systems, instrumentation, navigation products, training devices and services, and both terrestrial/spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense, and commercial sectors. The company was formed from the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation on June 29, 2019,[3] which made it the sixth-largest defense contractor in the United States.
