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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Raytheon, Boeing to continue JAGM development

[Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM)]Raytheon and Boeing say the US Department of Defense is going to continue the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) as a technology demonstration effort, with contracts to be awarded this year.

The proposed US defence budget for fiscal year 2013 calls for only $10 million to be spent on the programme, says Raytheon's business development director for advanced missiles, James Smith, with this insufficient to continue development of the new weapon.

"There just wasn't enough money to proceed into a very demanding engineering and manufacturing development programme that was supposed to take off this year," he says.

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