L3Harris Red Wolf

In September 2023, the U.S. Marine Corps issued a requirement for a long-range precision attack missile, to be launched from helicopters and VTOL aircraft and called LRAM (Long Range Attack Missile). The baseline platform for the missile was to be the AH-1Z, and the required sea-level range was at least 280 km (150 nm). The program was later renamed to PASM (Precision Attack Strike Missile).

One competitor for PASM was the L3Harris Red Wolf missile. Test firings from AH-1Z helicopters began in 2024. In February 2026, it was announced that L3Harris had won a production contract for an undisclosed number of Red Wolf missiles, to be delivered by the end of September 2027.

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Red Wolf

The Red Wolf missile is in the 115 kg (250 lb) class, and is estimated to be about 1.8 m (6 ft) long. It is powered by a small jet engine fed by a dorsal intake, and has flip-out swept wings and tail surfaces. L3Harris claims a range of 370 km (200 nm), but apart from that, no details about the missile's performance characteristics or navigation/guidance systems have been made public. L3Harris is also marketing a missile named Green Wolf, a recoverable variant of Red Wolf for Electronic Warfare and Target Detection/Locating.

Specifications

No details about the characteristics of the Red Wolf are available.

Main Sources

[1] L3Harris: Launched Effects
[2] The War Zone, Joe Trevithick: Secretive Long Range Attack Missile For Marine AH-1s Is Now Being Flight Tested, May 2024
[3] Janes, Zach Rosenberg: L3Harris raises curtain on Red Wolf launched effect, July 2025
[4] Breaking Defense, Patrick Dawson: Marine Corps selects L3Harris to build new Precision Attack Strike Munition, February 2026

Back to Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles, Appendix 4

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Last Updated: 12 February 2026