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US
Missile Defense Agency awards Raytheon with $156 million SM-3 contract |
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The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon Company an undefinitized
contract action (UCA) valued at $156 million for the procurement of
Standard Missile-3 Block IB guided missiles. The SM-3 missile is designed
to destroy incoming short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic
missile threats by colliding with them in space, a concept sometimes
described as "hitting a bullet with a bullet." More than 155
SM-3s have been delivered to the U.S. and Japan. The SM-3 Block IB will
be deployed at sea and on land. |
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A SM-3 Launches from USS Lake Erie during a test
(File Picture: US Navy)
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Fiscal
year 2014 Defense wide procurement funds will be used to fund this effort;
the work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., and Huntsville, Ala., through
September 2016. |
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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. |
