France Develops Smarter Rockets
Thales subsidiary TDA is flight testing its precision rockets on the Eurocopter Tiger.
Thales subsidiary TDA is flight testing its precision rockets on the Eurocopter Tiger.

The drive for low collateral damage weapons continues, and one recent focus has been on making air-ground rockets ‘smarter’ by adding seekers. The U.S. has led the way, but Europe is catching up. Rocketsan of Turkey has developed a product; and now Thales subsidiary TDA Armaments is flight-testing a metric precision rocket (French acronym RPM) on the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter.