Lightweight Multirole Missile

The Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) is a lightweight air-to-surface, air-to-air, surface-to-air, and surface-to-surface missile developed by Thales Air Defence for the United Kingdom. In Royal Navy service, the LMM is referred to as Martlet, a mythical bird from English heraldry that never roosts. The LMM was developed from the Starburst surface-to-air missile to meet the UK's Future Air-to-Surface Guided Weapon (Light) requirement (supplemented by the heavier Future Anti-Surface Guided Weapon (Heavy) missile now known as Sea Venom) to provide Royal Navy AW159 Wildcat helicopters with the ability to engage smaller and manoeuvrable naval craft. A glide variant of the LMM known as FreeFall LMM (FFLMM) (or Fury for the U.S.