ATA III.

This is coolbert:

Conclusion.

Originally this was LREW. Long Range Engagement Weapon. NOW called AIM-260.

 From the WAR ZONE and the article by JOSEPH TREVITHICK.

Boeing 747 a military version using the LREW as and air-to-air [ATA] weapon. Net-centric targeting that commercial airliner retrofitted and heavily modified an aspect of American air dominance doctrine and  operational capability.

"Meet The AIM-260, The Air Force And Navy's Future Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile"

"Concerns about the improving capabilities of China's air-to-air missiles pushed the services to quietly begin the program two years ago."

"The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy have been quietly working together to develop a new air-to-air missile called the AIM-260 that will replace the venerable AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM. The two services are worried that the Chinese, in particular, have begun to out-range American fighter jets with their own advanced air-to-air missiles."

Chinese threat as posed by the PL-15 and subsequent in-the-works PL-21 long-range air-air missile countered by Boeing 747 military carrying prodigious numbers of LREW!

This is the hope.

coolbert.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/lrew.htm