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Nammo, Northrop Grumman Get RTX Contracts As Alternative Sources For Mk 72 Rocket Motors

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Nammo, Northrop Grumman Get RTX Contracts As Alternative Sources For Mk 72 Rocket Motors
A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is launched from Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG-85) off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii, during Flight Test Other-23 (FTX-23) on February 8, 2024. It goes on to intercept a Medium Range Ballistic Missile target. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

RTX [RTX] on Monday said it has awarded contracts to Norway’s Nammo and Northrop Grumman [NOC] to qualify the companies as suppliers of Mk 72 solid rocket motors, which help power the Navy’s Standard Missile (SM)-3 and SM-6. L3Harris Technologies [LHX] currently supplies the Mk 72 to RTX’s Raytheon business, which makes the SM-3, used for ballistic missile defense, and SM-6, which has an extended range and is used for broader anti-air warfare operations, including terminal ballistic missile defense and…

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