A Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) was launched to score a direct hit on a remote-controlled land-based moving target, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced.

The test was conducted at the Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif.

The test concluded a four-part series of developmental/operational flight tests funded by the Navy Rapid Technology Transfer program. Previous test flights included engagement with remote-controlled mobile targets in 2006 and an operational test launch earlier in January.

For the Jan. 15 test, an aircraft equipped with the Navy Littoral Surveillance Radar System sent real-time targeting data to a Boeing F/A-18F aircraft, which relayed the data to the SLAM-ER after the weapon launched from a second F/A-18F aircraft. The SLAM-ER acquired and impacted a simulated mobile target traveling at approximately 12 miles per hour in a cluttered desert environment.

The test was designed to validate the radar system’s ability to provide targeting information to the weapon, as well as its ability to acquire and impact the target with varied target speeds and background environments. This capability is now awaiting customer approval to become operational.

SLAM ER is a day/night, adverse-weather, over-the-horizon precision strike missile capable of hitting stationary or moving targets on land or at sea.