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  • Raytheon's SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test

    A Raytheon defensive missile has completed the first U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency flight test that sought to evaluate its capacity to intercept ballistic missile threats. Raytheon said Saturday the USS John Paul Jones guided missile destroyer launched the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA during the test to intercept a land-launched target. The demonstration sought to evaluate the performance of the SM-3 […] More

  • US Navy, MDA, Japan Test Raytheon SM-3 Variant; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy, MDA, Japan Test Raytheon SM-3 Variant; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Navy and the Japanese defense department have demonstrated a variant of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-3 weapon during a live-fire flight test in Point Mogu, California. Raytheon built a 21-inch-diameter system against medium and intermediate ballistic missile threats for U.S. and Japan’s SM-3 Cooperative Development Project, MDA said Tuesday. The company said its SM-3 Block IIA launched from an […] More