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Raytheon Awarded $145 million For Patriot GEM-T Missiles For Kuwait

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Friday, January 28th, 2011

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Raytheon [RTN] recently said it received a $145 million Foreign Military Sales production contract for Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles-Tactical (GEM-T) to augment Kuwait's air and missile defense. The Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., issued the contract to complement Kuwait's Configuration-3 radar system upgrade work already underway at Raytheon. "This new GEM-T missile production contract highlights the efforts by Kuwait Air Defense to maintain readiness and effectiveness of the Patriot Air and Missile System to counter evolving regional…

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