Raytheon's missile-killers

At Raytheon Missile Systems' sprawling campus at Tucson International Airport, scientists and engineers are doing things no one else can do, to do something many say can't be done.

Raytheon's Tucson-based missile division is a major player in building the nation's nascent missile-defense system, as the developer and maker of the Standard Missile-3 series of sea-based interceptors, as well as a kinetic warhead for a system of ground-based interceptors.

And despite some recent setbacks, Raytheon is forging ahead with both programs, under the Obama administration's four-phase, 20-year plan to build a flexible missile shield to protect the U.S. and Europe.

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