WASHINGTON – Missile designers at RTX Corp. will provide the U.S. Navy with shipboard air-defense missiles under terms of a $333.3 million contract announced last week.
Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington are asking the RTX Raytheon segment in Tucson, Ariz., for Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) full rate production, spares parts, and round design. This contract includes options that could increase its value to $908.1 million.
Surface warships
The SM-6, also called the RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), is deployed on Navy surface warships like cruisers and destroyers to provide air defense against enemy fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), land-attack anti-ship cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles in their terminal phases over sea and land, Raytheon officials say.
The SM-6 uses the legacy Standard Missile airframe and engine, and adds the advanced signal processing and guidance control capabilities of the Raytheon AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM)…