INDIAN HEAD, Md. — Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) conducted the first-ever static firing of a fully loaded, re-grained Mk 70 solid rocket motor (SRM) at the command’s manufacturing facilities in Indian Head, Maryland, August 5. The demonstration is a major milestone in boosting NSWC IHD’s production capacity for large SRMs and addressing a bottleneck in the defense industrial base. “Our branch’s motto is to ‘ignite …
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