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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Patriot Air and Missile Defense System Gets Smarter, Faster and Tougher

Ceramic radar dome |Deep inside the factory where Patriot defense systems are made, Ken Arruda stopped beside a rolling cart and pointed to a white card sprinkled with what looked like grains of sand.

They were computer chips for the Patriot's radar system – parts that since 2006 have shrunk to one-eighth their previous size.

"Now they're as small as a speck of pepper," said Arruda, operations director for Raytheon's air defense programs. "That's how far Patriot has come in the last few years."

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