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Navy/USMC

Raytheon Evolving SM-6 To Terminal Defense By End Of Next Year

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, September 8th, 2014

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Raytheon Evolving SM-6 To Terminal Defense By End Of Next Year

An Mk 41 VLS launches an SM-6 off the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

TUCSON, Ariz.--Raytheon [RTN] expects the SM-6 will be capable of providing terminal ballistic missile defense by the end of 2015 or early 2016, according to a company’s program director. The SM-6 is already in low-rate production, deployed on Navy ships and recently engaged in successful tests for over-the-horizon air defense, but it is also intended to engage ballistic missile in the terminal flight phase. The Block 1 version of the SM-6 will receive the dual-mode capability with the ones rolling…

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