Lockheed, Kongsberg test twin-Javelin setup on armored turret

The Javelin Joint Venture completed a simulation demonstration in Norway using a Kongsberg Medium-Caliber Turret fitted with a prototype dual launcher assembly for the Javelin anti-tank missile.

The companies described it as the first phase of an ongoing effort to integrate Javelin more closely with vehicle-mounted turret systems.

The Javelin Joint Venture is a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, an RTX business, that builds and sells the Javelin missile system. Javelin is a shoulder-fired, fire-and-forget anti-tank weapon that has also been adapted for vehicle-mounted use over the past decade, most often paired with Kongsberg’s remote weapon stations rather than a full turret system like the Medium-Caliber Turret.

The Medium-Caliber Turret, built by Norway’s Kongsberg, is best known in U.S. service as the turret on the Army’s Stryker Dragoon vehicles, where it carries a 30 mm autocannon along with a coaxial machine gun. Kongsberg’s turret family already supports Javelin as an add-on weapon in some configurations, mounted either on a companion remote weapon station or alongside the turret’s main gun. A dual launcher assembly would let a single turret carry two ready-to-fire Javelin rounds rather than one.

Kongsberg and the Javelin Joint Venture have worked together on vehicle-mounted Javelin systems since at least 2012, when the two companies fired Javelin missiles from a Kongsberg Protector remote weapon station mounted on a Piranha V vehicle during winter trials in Norway. More recent demonstrations have shown Javelin firing from robotic and unmanned ground vehicles equipped with Kongsberg’s Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station, including a 2024 U.S. Army exercise in which Javelin fired from two different unmanned ground vehicles at once.

The U.S. Army remains the Javelin Joint Venture’s largest customer. The venture is operating under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity production contract with a ceiling of $7.2 billion covering fiscal years 2023 through 2026, and it delivered the first units of a new Lightweight Command Launch Unit to the Army in May. The Army has not said whether it is evaluating the Medium-Caliber Turret dual launcher configuration for its own vehicle fleet.