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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

  • Orbital ATK, MDA Test Rocket Motor Nozzle on Raytheon's SM-3 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK, MDA Test Rocket Motor Nozzle on Raytheon’s SM-3

    Orbital ATK and the Missile Defense Agency have demonstrated the company’s updated MK 136 Third Stage Rocket Motor nozzle aboard Raytheon‘s Standard Missile Block IB at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The company said Tuesday the missiles were fired from a Navy Aegis destroyer off the coast of Kauai to test the updated nozzle’s support for […] More

  • Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor

    Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have validated the third stage rocket motor update for the updated Standard Missile-3 Block IB following completion of a flight test. MDA and Raytheon tested the in-flight performance of the SM-3 rocket motor following previous ground tests, the company said Thursday. The updated missile will join the existing missile production line. The […] 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

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Builds 100th SM-3 Propulsion Control System for Raytheon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Builds 100th SM-3 Propulsion Control System for Raytheon

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and delivered its 100th throttling divert and attitude control system for the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor. Aerojet said Wednesday that TDACS is currently the only MIL-STD 1901A standards-compliant solid rocket propulsion system being used by the U.S. Navy. The company also manufactures first- and second-stage SM-3 Block IB booster […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Use Space Sensor System to Cue SM-3 Launch; Bill Hart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Use Space Sensor System to Cue SM-3 Launch; Bill Hart Comments

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy has completed a capabilities test of the company’s Standard Missile-3 Block IA to evaluate the weapon’s work with a satellite sensor system to pinpoint and destroy a medium-range ballistic missile target. Mitch Stevison, Raytheon program director for SM-3, said Thursday that this test is the first time the Navy used cues from a space sensor system […] More

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