Raytheon and U.S. Navy Team for Standard Missile Improvements
TUCSON, Ariz., April 19 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Navy have teamed to successfully complete a major update to Standard Missile-2 (SM-2). The improvement, called a “Maneuverability Upgrade,” provides SM-2 with substantially increased performance against new, anti-ship weapons while delivering increased capability to the warfighter.
By: sferrin - 28th April 2007 at 08:33
“According to DID,
“SM-2 has recently completed an upgrade that gives it improved maneuverability via improved steering, thrust-vectoring, and software. This is especially important against supersonic wave-skimming cruise missiles, which offer very little time from the moment they break the horizon to become visible on radar until impact.”
Where it’s got that long-burn motor that’s an interesting developement. Too bad they only buy what, twenty or thirty a year? :rolleyes:
By: sferrin - 26th April 2007 at 03:47
Anybody know any details? If it’s software man am I going to be disappointed. Tired of the same old look for the last 50 years. Did it get side-thrusters like a PAC-3 or Aster? Did they make the strakes bigger (so it looks even more like Tartar)? Can the changes be retrofitted (if not, buying 5 a year or however many it is will take a 1000 years to equip the fleet)?
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April 25, 2007 at 8:50 am