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RTX Completes Subsystem Tests For Stinger Replacement Offering, Eyes Flight Test In 2025

RTX Completes Subsystem Tests For Stinger Replacement Offering, Eyes Flight Test In 2025
U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade fire a FIM-92 Stinger during an air defense live-fire exercise alongside soldiers with the Croatian Air Defense Regiment. This training is part of Exercise Shield 22 at Kamenjak near Medulin, Croatia on April 8, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. John Yountz)

RTX [RTX] has completed a series of successful subsystem tests with its offering for the Army’s Stinger missile replacement competition, the company said Tuesday, as it readies for a flight test demonstration later in 2025. The weapon offering for the Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI) program specifically went through 10 subsystem demonstrations, RTX’s Raytheon business unit noted, to include testing the capability’s seeker, flight rocket motor, warhead assembly and more. "These successful subsystem demonstrations are a crucial step in…

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