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New Long-Range Navy Missile To Begin Operational Testing, Deployments This Summer

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Monday, May 9th, 2011

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The Navy's newest long-range, anti-aircraft missile is ready to begin operational testing, as well as a small number of deployments aboard service warships by July, a senior industry official overseeing the program said recently. Program officials from Raytheon [RTN] delivered the first of 19 Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) versions of its new SM-6 to the Navy in March, according to Frank Wyatt, vice president of Raytheon's Air and Missile Defense Systems. "Over five years ago, we set the date in…

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