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Raytheon And Kongsberg Offer Navy Over-The-Horizon Missile Proposal

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

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Raytheon And Kongsberg Offer Navy Over-The-Horizon Missile Proposal

The Navy's test of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) on a Littoral Combat Ship in 2018. (Photo: US Navy)

Raytheon [RTN] and Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen are offering their Naval Strike Missile (NSM) for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and future frigates over-the-horizon (OTH) missile requirement, the companies confirmed last Wednesday.The team confirmed their offer will meet today’s proposal deadline.The companies first announced they would work together to offer the NSM in 2015 in a teaming agreement (Defense Daily, April 8, 2015).The Navy is holding a competition for a long-range anti-ship missile to counter threats that will require…

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