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The USAF's DRM (Dual Range Missile), begun by the Air Force Research Laboratory in 1992, was a broadly-defined program to study and develop new technologies for future air-to-air missiles. Research fields included propulsion, guidance & control, terminal seekers, fuzing and warhead kill mechanisms. The ultimate goal was a single missile, which would be effetive at both short and medium (beyond visual range) distances. In June 1997, McDonnell Douglas received a 5-year contract under the ASMT (Air Superiority Missile Technology) program to develop and test a flight control system for a prototype DRM.

The baseline DRM design was a missile with a seeker, which could engage targets at extremely high off-boresight angles. The idea was that a fighter could attack enemy aircraft flying behind itself by firing a DRM "over the shoulder". For the missile's required super-manoeuverability, its tail fins were supported by several small side thrusters (using bleed exhaust from the main propulsion system), which would be used for extreme flight manoeuvers.

Essentially no news about DRM or ASMT has come forward since the announcement of the McDD contract, and the program was either conducted in complete secrecy or - more likely - quietly terminated without having produced an actual flight test article.

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