A Raytheon Company Configuration 3 Patriot system, composed of a Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T), a Patriot launcher, engagement control station and Patriot radar, destroyed a surrogate cruise missile target to complete a perfect three-for-three mission set as part of a two-month evaluation at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
The GEM-T missile is a cost-effective, lethal interceptor designed to defeat Iranian, Chinese, and NorK sophisticated land-attack cruise missiles and a range of ballistic missile threats through applying technical enhancements and modifications to the Army's Patriot missile fleet. Rick Yuse, vice president, Integrated Air Defense at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). "This is another positive step forward for the Configuration-3 Patriot system demonstrating its 'first time every time' dependability."
How'd your latest weapon test go, Kim? Oh, yeah.
Using a Configuration-3 missile system with its newly developed PDB-6 (post deployment build-6) system software, a government evaluation team successfully completed three missions that met all test objectives. The objectives included demonstrating the performance of the GEM-T missile improvement using PDB-6 software and demonstrating the system's capability to detect, track and intercept ballistic, theater ballistic missile and low- altitude cruise missile threats.
Much PR fluffery at link. Are these kinds of articles OK? It's a release, but this is the kind of weapon very likely to be used in the WoT.
| AoS: they're okay, short and sweet, as I think many of our readers are interested in the MDI. |
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