Army using supplemental, reprogrammed funds to bolster LASSO

By Dan Schere / May 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM
As the Army looks to bolster its Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordinance (LASSO) program going forward, it plans to use a combination of reprogrammed funds from two previous fiscal years as well as the recently passed Ukrainian supplemental security package to do so. LASSO is a “man-portable, tube launched lethal payload munition” unmanned system, that can fly, track and engage “non-line-of-sight targets and armored vehicles with precision lethal fires,” according to the Army. Gen. James Rainey, the commanding general...

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