Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile Destroys Drone Target to Mark Second- Straight Successful Test Flight in May

Raytheon Company's Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles (GEM) celebrated its second consecutive successful test flight as a GEM-T missile destroyed a surrogate cruise missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

The successful government test of the next evolution of the Patriot Advanced Configuration-2 (PAC-2) GEM missile was the second of four development flight tests to be conducted by the Patriot Lower Tier Project Office using Raytheon's newly-developed Patriot system post deployment build-6 (PDB-6) software.

"This flight test builds on the success of the previous PAC-2 test, and the outstanding results validate we're on track to ensure the Patriot system remains an affordable, premier air defense solution for our warfighters," said Rick Yuse, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) Integrated Air Defense vice president. "As in the previous test, this equipment demonstrated the Configuration-3/PDB-6 system's capability to search, detect, track, classify, engage and eliminate the threat with no doubt Mission Assurance."

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