L3Harris Technologies has unveiled a new pair of launched effects vehicles aimed at expanding the U.S. military’s options for precision strike and electronic warfare across domains.
Announced on 17 July, the Red Wolf and Green Wolf systems mark the beginning of what the company describes as a broader family of multi-role munitions.
Red Wolf is a kinetic long-range strike platform, while Green Wolf is configured for electronic warfare tasks, including electronic attack and the ability to detect, identify, locate and report signals. Both are designed to operate from air, ground or maritime platforms and support in-flight retargeting, collaboration between vehicles and swarming operations.
According to L3Harris, the two systems are modular and software-defined, which allows for integration of new payloads and updates without redesigning the hardware. The company claims to have conducted over 40 test flights and plans to move into low-rate initial production by the end of 2025.
The wait is over.
Introducing Red Wolf ᵀᴹ and Green Wolf ᵀᴹ, the first vehicles in our expanding pack of launched effects systems. pic.twitter.com/d4oG7fgeE4
— L3Harris (@L3HarrisTech) July 17, 2025
L3Harris say that the ‘Wolf’ vehicles are designed to be adaptable across services and roles, but there has been no official U.S. Department of Defense endorsement or procurement announcement so far.
The unveiling comes amid heightened Pentagon interest in affordable, networked munitions that can operate in contested environments and reduce dependence on more expensive, traditional platforms. Whether Red Wolf and Green Wolf will find a role in existing U.S. concepts like the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft or the U.S. Army’s launched effects initiatives remains to be seen.
The US has a staggering amount of cheap ‘cruise’ missiles coming online this year from all sorts of different manufactures- air force docs say they’re getting 3000 under the FAMM program this year alone.
They can only do this as they are planning to launch them from the back of a C17. Building the missiles can be done relatively cost effectively. It’s integrating and launching them from expensive fighters, SSN’s and Warships that is the expensive and time consuming part.
Launching them out the back of a cargo plane requires no integration.
If the UK wants 7,000 cruise missiles then it needs to invest in an A400M/C17 launched 1,000 mile range cruise missile as well as a truck lunched 2000 mile+ range solution using an affordable solution like MBDA are outlining for the French rather than an expensive gimmick like Typhon Mk41 launcher.
Combining these two approaches would allow us to launch several hundred missiles at Russia a day which should be a strong deterrent against them targeting us.
Russias air defences are clearly a joke and it’s incredibly vulnerable to mass cruise missile strikes. It should be relatively straight forward to take out most of Russia’s remaining bomber fleet on the ground preventing it from lunching mass cruise missile strikes on the UK.