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Raytheon's
new SM-3 Block IB on track for operational deployment in 2015 |
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Raytheon Company was awarded a $218,530,196 contract by the Missile
Defense Agency to complete the assembly and delivery of 29 Standard
Missile-3 Block IB missiles. Launched off U.S. Navy ships, SM-3 interceptors
protect the U.S. and its allies by destroying incoming short-, medium-,
and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats by colliding with them
in space. |
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A SM-3 Launches from USS Lake Erie during a test
(File Picture: US Navy)
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"The
three back-to-back successful SM-3 Block IB flight tests have demonstrated
the missile's advanced capabilities and reliability against various
threats in a variety of mission scenarios," said Dr. Taylor Lawrence,
Raytheon Missile Systems president. "Combatant commanders around
the world are eager to build up their inventories in support of Phase
2 of the Phased Adaptive Approach starting in 2015."
Final assembly will take place in Raytheon's new, state-of-the-art Redstone
Missile Integration Facility in Huntsville, Ala. Guidance sections and
guidance units will be built at the Raytheon Missile Systems Space Factory
in Tucson, Ariz.
"The Redstone Missile Integration Facility will prove critical
as we ramp up our manufacturing capacity on the path to SM-3 Block IB
full-rate production," said Dr. Mitch Stevison, Raytheon Missile
Systems' SM-3 program director. |
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PACIFIC OCEAN (May 15, 2013) A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor
missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG
70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific.
The SM-3 Block 1B successfully intercepted a target missile that had
been launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands
in Kauai, Hawaii. Lake Erie detected and tracked the target with its
onboard AN/SPY-1 radar. The event was the third consecutive successful
intercept test of the SM-3 Block IB missile. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)
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About
the Standard Missile-3
The SM-3 does not contain an explosive warhead, but instead destroys
the threats using sheer impact, equivalent to a 10-ton truck traveling
at 600 mph.
» More than 155 SM-3s have been delivered ahead of schedule and
under cost.
» Raytheon is on track to deliver the next-generation SM-3 Block
IB in 2015.
» SM-3 Block IB will be deployed in both sea-based and land-based
modes. |
