Raytheon
Company, acting through its Missile Systems business, and Chemring Group
are finalizing plans to conduct a live missile firing of the multirole
CENTURION® launcher at the Defence Training Estate on Salisbury
Plain during the fourth quarter of 2013.
"Our plan is to launch a missile to help prove our capability against
a maneuvering surface threat such as a fast, swarming attack craft,"
said Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems' Naval
and Area Mission Defense product line. "Chemring's CENTURION®
launcher, coupled with a number of Raytheon's combat-tested missiles,
brings an entirely new dimension to ship self-defense to provide a sea-based,
inside-the-horizon platform protection system." |
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Low Cost Anti-Surface Weapon System
The solution to counter fast inshore attack craft consists of a variety
of Raytheon missiles with ranges matched to the intended target. The
missiles would be fired from the Chemring CENTURION® launcher, with
initial target detection, tracking and identification provided by the
ship's sensors.
"This progression towards integrating CENTURION® with Raytheon
missiles to deliver a low-cost, effective and versatile solution to
increase naval platform protection is a significant milestone,"
said Mark Papworth, chief executive of Chemring Group. "This multimission
single-launch platform solution can be installed on a wide variety of
surface ships and provides defensive protection in both blue water and
the littorals, contributing to the layered defence philosophy against
a wide range of threats."
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