page_title: ASALM
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: ASALM / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: English: Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile (ASALM) Propulsion Test Vehicle (PTV) undergoing flight tests aboard a LTV A-7D Corsair II.
context_page_description: The Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile was a medium-range strategic missile program, developed in the late 1970s for the United States Air Force. Intended for use in both the air-to-surface and anti-AWACS roles, the missile's development reached the stage of propulsion-system tests before being cancelled in 1980.
context_section_description: Starting in October 1979, a series of flight tests of Propulsion Technology Validation missiles, using a Marquardt rocket-ramjet, were conducted. Over the course of seven test firings, a maximum speed of Mach 5.5 at an altitude of 40,000 feet (12,000 m) was achieved.
  Despite the successful testing, the ASALM program was suspended following the seventh PTV test flight in May 1980; reductions in the defense budget, combined with the development of the subsonic AGM-86 ALCM, led to the cancellation of the program later that year.
  The Martin Marietta ASALM concept was later developed into the AQM-127 SLAT target drone.
caption: ASALM Propulsion Test Vehicle on an A-7
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