Zone 5 Rusty Dagger. #AffordableMass

"Rusty Dagger has successfully performed end-to-end mission demonstrations, including palletized launch, pylon launch, long duration missions, and high accuracy terminal engagement” ~ Zone 5 Technologies (Via @BreakingDefense)

Rusty Dagger from Zone 5 Technologies, RAACM from CoAspire, and the Barracuda 500 from Anduril have all been funded by the US Air Force / DOD for development and potential production in support of various munition transition programs like the USAF's ERAM and for the Enterprise Test Vehicle effort (DIU/AF parent effort). These efforts are focused on low-cost (sub $350K to sub $250K per AUR) high volume cruise missile production to enable #AffordableMass.

The collection of low-cost, open mission systems (OMS) compliant air-vehicles funded by the DOD and/or the contractor (for example Lockheed's CMMT) are aimed at rapidly moving into scaled high volume production without negatively impacting existing munition/weapon system supply chains. Transition programs include the Extended Range Attack Munition #ERAM, Franklin Affordable Mass Missile (FAMM) and other SOCOM and service efforts all leveraging a common design, open standards and supply chains. The idea does not appear to be to pick a 'winner' but to rapidly transition multiple offerings to scaled production. USAF alone likely needs tens of thousands ERAM/FAMM class weapons to augment some of its current short range (sub 100 km) glide munitions.

I have previously looked at potential inventory objectives of what the USAF/Navy and allies will need in the Pacific . An inventory of 50,000 - 100,000 such munitions is not an unreasonable requirement.

Always nice to see an A-4

Looks like something you can place on even training aircraft as a simple carrier and launch platform to get high precision fires.

Is this going to be a serious competitor to Lockheed's CMMT like Anduril's Barracuda?

It is Air Force funded. CMMT is not.

@AskPerplexity Whose project is this, whose missile of which company and country?

I wonder how they'll make this system "affordable" while maintaining all these capabilities. Based on what I'm seeing in this video, it looks and performs like a JASSM. Which isn't exactly a cheap solution.

That's not really a problem for the teams developing it under a contract for a sub $350K AUR price point. You are stuck comparing it to JASSMER for some unspecified reason.