Raytheon, an RTX business, was awarded a $333 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce\u00a0Standard Missile-6\u00a0(SM-6) Block IA missiles.<\/p>\n
“SM-6 has a proven performance, and this contract is an important step for providing this urgently needed weapon to our armed forces,” said\u00a0Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Power at Raytheon. “Raytheon continues to work closely with our customers to ensure our military has an unfair advantage at sea and to keep our adversaries guessing.”<\/p>\n
Deployed on U.S. Navy ships, SM-6 delivers a proven, over-the-horizon offensive and defensive capability by leveraging the time-tested Standard Missile airframe and propulsion system. It’s the only missile that supports anti-air and anti-surface warfare and sea-based terminal ballistic missile defense in one solution, enabling the U.S. and its allies to cost-effectively increase the offensive might of surface forces.<\/p>\n
SM-6 has been successfully fired from various U.S. Navy ships, unmanned vessels, and launchers on land. In\u00a0March 2024, SM-6 demonstrated its anti-missile capabilities by\u00a0successfully intercepting\u00a0a medium-range ballistic missile target at sea during the Flight Test Aegis Weapon System (FTM)-32 exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n Production under this contract will be completed at Raytheon facilities in\u00a0Tucson, Ariz.,\u00a0Huntsville, Ala.,\u00a0Andover, Mass., and Dine, N.M. with expected completion by 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Raytheon, an RTX business, was awarded a $333 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce\u00a0Standard Missile-6\u00a0(SM-6) Block IA missiles. “SM-6 has a proven performance, and this contract is an important step for providing this urgently needed weapon to our armed forces,” said\u00a0Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Power at Raytheon. “Raytheon continues to work closely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":137232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272,58726,4509,6128,2554,2323],"tags":[7073,7829,47172],"class_list":["post-137231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-air-en","category-defense-industry","category-headlines-en-tr","category-raytheon-technologies-en","category-sales-en","category-usa-en","tag-raytheon-en","tag-rtx-en","tag-rtx-tr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}