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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Raytheon to provide Army with latest versions of wireless TOW missile in $57.8 million contract

BGM-71 TOW FamilyThe Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., will build the latest versions of a radio-controlled anti-tank missile that has been in the U.S. inventory since 1970 under terms of a multi-million-dollar contract announced late last week.

Officials of the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal (Missile), Ala., on Thursday awarded a $57.8 million contract to Raytheon to produce the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided (TOW) -- better-known as the TOW missile.

The multimission TOW 2A, TOW 2B, TOW 2B aero, and TOW bunker-buster missile is the one of the primary precision anti-armor, anti-fortification, and anti-amphibious landing weapons used throughout the world today, Raytheon officials say.

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