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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Raytheon Delivers First Standard Missile-6 to U.S. Navy

Standard Missile-6Raytheon Company delivered the first Standard Missile-6 production round to the U.S. Navy.

"Five years ago, Raytheon promised the U.S. Navy that SM-6 would be delivered in March 2011, and we delivered on that promise," said Frank Wyatt, vice president of Raytheon's Air and Missile Defense Systems product line.

"Raytheon delivered the SM-6 to our customer and met cost expectations for system development and demonstration.

Now the U.S. Navy has a missile that provides an umbrella of protection against the full spectrum of air threats."

SM-6 leverages the legacy Standard Missile airframe and propulsion elements while incorporating the advanced signal processing and guidance control capabilities of Raytheon's Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile.

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