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The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
AN/SPY-6 system overview. In October 2013, "Raytheon Company (RTN) [was] awarded an almost $386m cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase design, development, integration, test, and delivery of Air and Missile Defense S-band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC)."
This configuration can also be used for Terminal phase Ballistic Missile Defense. [2] An SM-2ER on the rail inside USS Mahan. There was a plan to build a nuclear armed standard missile mounting a W81 nuclear warhead as a replacement for the earlier Nuclear Terrier missile (RIM-2D). The USN rescinded the requirement for the nuclear armed missile ...
Raytheon landed another big contract win from the Pentagon Monday. The Department of Defense awarded its Missile Systems division a modification to a pre-existing contract to perform "post ...
Raytheon's (RTX) business unit, Missiles & Defense, clinches a $93.6 million modification contract to upgrade the MK15 Close-In Weapon System.
The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) was developed as the last line of automated weapons defense (terminal defense or point defense) against all incoming threats, including antiship missiles (AShMs or ASMs), aircraft including high-g and maneuvering sea-skimmers, and small boats.
Raytheon made about $36.7 million in profit from the Gulf Cooperation Council contract additions, which involved air-defense system upgrades, and anticipated making more than $72 million on the ...
The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS).