GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, March 24, 2026 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) completed both the first integrated HELLFIRE missile live-fire and vertical-launch test from the company’s new containerized GRIZZLY launcher.
Below is a Lockeed Martin news release. The Grizzly launcher looks like maybe something the Coast Guard could use. It is a containerized M299 launcher. Presumably that means the container could house four missiles.
A standard 10 foot container is 10′ x 8′ x 8’6″, almost square looking at it end on. This looks a little taller. There are high cube containers that are 9’6″ tall.
Hellfire being loaded onto an M299 launcher.
While the launcher can be elevated to fire vertically or at an angle, it is probably loaded with the launcher horizontal.
An M299 launcher. While this one mounts one Hellfire it appears the M299 can mount other weapons as well. Because they appear to be longer than the Hellfire (64″), they may be APKWS (74-75″).
Why put the M299 in a container?
The Navy is currently planning on having unmanned surface vessels, Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC), with containerized weapons and sensors, and some reports link this to the Navy, but Army Recognition offers another explanation,
Its tactical value is tied to concealment, mobility and responsiveness. On a battlefield where traditional launchers can be identified and targeted by drones, satellites and long-range precision fires, a containerized launcher can complicate the enemy’s detection and targeting cycle by blending more easily into support and transport environments.
Logistics uses a lot of containers and one looks very much like another, so killing the important ones is difficult, while it is easy to make replicas that are indistinguishable.
The press release makes no reference to the system being developed for any particular service, rather it states.
As a highly transportable launcher, GRIZZLY is command and control and sensor agnostic, providing an affordable and easily relocatable launcher solution to support any service or mission, anywhere.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, March 24, 2026 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) completed both the first integrated HELLFIRE missile live-fire and vertical-launch test from the company’s new containerized GRIZZLY launcher.
THE BIG PICTURE
During the tests, the launcher demonstrated its ability to load and launch a missile from a 10-foot Tricon container. Built in just six months from proven weapon and launcher architectures, including the fielded M299 system, GRIZZLY delivers cost-efficient, rapid-mobility and low-observable distributed expeditionary weapon delivery capability. This provides a purpose-built asymmetric capability that seamlessly augments traditional artillery, point-defense and missile-launch systems, enhancing both flexibility and lethality.
WHY IT MATTERS
- Confirming real-time trajectory: These tests validated GRIZZLY’s launch capability by completing all requirements. The Lockheed Martin team will continue to work with the U.S. government to refine the ongoing development of the system.
- Cost-effective integration: The launcher uses commercial off-the-shelf materials, reducing logistics footprint and acquisition cost. By leveraging proven weapon and launcher architectures, GRIZZLY shortens acquisition cycles while minimizing logistics footprints.
- Future readiness: As a highly transportable launcher, GRIZZLY is command and control and sensor agnostic, providing an affordable and easily relocatable launcher solution to support any service or mission, anywhere.
- Continuous refinement: The speed of these tests continues to refine the on-going development of the system, and data collected permits rapid insertion of product improvements that best supports U.S. customer needs.
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE
“This is an example of how our Lockheed Martin team is leading innovation for our customers’ needs,” said Randy Crites, vice president, Lockheed Martin Advanced Programs. “Our first live fire tests come just six months after the program began research and development, through internal Lockheed Martin investment, demonstrating our focus on quickly delivering a mobile and versatile launcher capability to defeat evolving threats.”
“GRIZZLY provides the customer versatility and flexibility for their needs, as well as an element of mobility and discreteness for offensive and defensive fires,” said Crites.
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Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
I am a Hellfire fan. I like Spike NLOS too.
I will start getting excited when I see ESSM in a container. Same argument for ASROC. Of course seeing the new Mk58 Compact Rapid Attack Weapon (CRAW) launcher on our new FF(X).
while I also like the AGM-114 family of missiles, the downside with the GRIZZLY container launch system still requires a 15-ton capable crane to reload the GRIZZLY launcher with! Most likely candidate for any retrofitted with the Lockheed-Martin JQL (JAGM Quad Launcher) which is trainable and can be reloaded at sea by at least two well trained crewmen…