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| Raytheon Hits Big |
| 2010-07-08 |
| Raytheon Company received a $368 million, three-year, contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture Standard Missile-6 ("SM-6") systems. The contract includes the production of missiles, spare parts, and system and design engineering efforts, to meet the requirements of the U.S. Navy. SM-6 is capable of providing over-the-horizon air defense and takes full advantage of the kinematics available to the Standard Missile family, allowing the use of both active and semi-active modes and advanced fuzing techniques. The missile is designed to help ships protect themselves against various aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles and anti-ship missiles. Raytheon stated that SM-6 is undergoing development testing presently and will go for operational testing in fiscal year 2011, with initial operational start-up by March 2011. The company plans to begin the delivery of the extended-range, anti-aircraft missiles in early 2011. Going forward, the companyÂ’s focus on Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance ("ISR") unmanned systems, training, cyber security, Standard Missile-6, Patriot, Zumwalt and THAAD is expected to fuel growth. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #6 Subs or surface ships, I don't know. I think the current biggest threat, as has been pointed out are saturation attacks and the supercavitating torpedo. Near as I know, Russia and China have them. I could easily imagine China using saturation tactics. They've been working on tactics to counter the US tech edge for some years now. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-07-08 14:23 |
| #5 Instead of one big target, we need tons of little ones that each need a missile to destroy. One Sunburn = one dead carrier. We need a swarm navy instead. Of course, it'll never happen. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-07-08 14:17 |
| #4 With the oceans not the hiding place they used to be, against advanced enemies, the real key now is going to be point defense, not stealth. Being able to shoot down the vast majority of whatever is incoming is going to be the real need. The fact we are finally starting to get useful weapons grade lasers might be key for this. For subs though, they're ability to mount point defense is limited. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2010-07-08 13:48 |
| #3 meh...submarines are the future. there is no way ships can defend from the huge amount of missiles and guided projectiles that came from land. Ummm, don't subs face the same problem? I understand that to a satellite the oceans are as transparent as Glass, so hiding Beneath the surface is No longer possible. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-07-08 10:36 |
| #2 meh...submarines are the future. there is no way ships can defend from the huge amount of missiles and guided projectiles that came from land. |
| Posted by: Phosing Big Foot3926 2010-07-08 09:43 |
| #1 ION TOPIX > PENTAGON TO BUILD "FLYING SUBS". [USS SEAVIEW = VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA theme here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-08 02:10 |