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Marine Corps Meets With RTX, Rafael On Potential Arkansas Site For Domestic Tamir Missile Production

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023

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Marine Corps Meets With RTX, Rafael On Potential Arkansas Site For Domestic Tamir Missile Production

A naval-based Iron Dome Tamir missile is launched in a November 2017 intercept test. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces)

The Marine Corps’ interest in domestic production of Tamir interceptor missiles, a component of the service’s Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) prototype, has now included a lead program official meeting with RTX [RTX] and Israel’s Rafael about a potential manufacturing site in Camden, Arkansas. “This will be a great thing for the Medium Range Intercept Capability program and for the [Marine Corps], if this occurs,” Don Kelley, the Marine Corps’ Program Executive Officer Land Systems’ program manager for ground-based air…

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