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Raytheon To Supply SM Block-3 IA, IB Missiles To U.S

  • 12:00 AM, September 5, 2012
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Raytheon has won a $230 million contract from the U.S Missile Defense Agency for 14 Standard Missile-3 Block IA missiles and five SM-3 Block IB missiles. The SM-3 Block IA missiles will be deployed on ships aboard U.S and Japanese Navy ships. The improved SM-3 was flight tested back-to-back earlier this year and has a Throttleable Divert and Attitude Control System that allows the kinetic warhead to propel itself toward incoming threats using short bursts of precision propulsion. Designed to destroy short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats in space, Raytheon's SM-3 Block IB includes an enhanced two-color infrared seeker for better target discrimination. Raytheon has delivered more than 135 SM-3 missiles to the U.S. and Japanese navies on time and on budget.
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