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Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $234,068,917 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-5432 to exercise options for the Over-the-Horizon Weapon System. Work will be performed in Kongsberg, Norway (69%); Tucson, Arizona (12%); Schrobenhausen, Germany (5%); Raufoss, Norway (4%); Huntsville, Arkansas (4%); Louisville, Kentucky (3%); De Soto, …

Patriot™ is becoming increasingly important as the backbone of NATO and German air defense. Raytheon Missiles & Defense and MBDA are now expanding their partnership and have developed a strategic roadmap for the production of Patriot interceptor missiles in Germany. This will enable Germany to counter the current threat situation …

During a demonstration off the Coast of Kauai, Hawaii, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force successfully intercepted short and medium-range ballistic missile targets with SM-3® Block IB and SM-3 Block IIA interceptors, both made by Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business. This is the first time a non-U.S. maritime service …

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, was awarded a $207 million U.S. Army contract for Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors, or KuRFS, and Coyote® effectors. Under the contract, the systems will equip two U.S. Army divisions. Additional assets will also be provided to support ongoing Army flight tests and operational deployments. As …

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies, in partnership with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). HACM is a first-of-its-kind weapon developed in conjunction with the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a U.S. and Australia project …

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, is awarded a $972 million contract for upgraded AMRAAM® missiles. This is the first AMRAAM contract to produce an entire lot of AIM-120D3 and AIM-120C8 missiles developed under the Form, Fit, Function Refresh, also known as F3R, which updates both the missile’s hardware …

 Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a $182 million contract for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, also known as NASAMS™, a highly adaptable mid-range air defense solution. These systems are expected to be provided to Ukraine in response to that nation’s need to defend against advanced air threats.  “Raytheon Missiles …

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman , successfully completed its second flight test of the scramjet-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force. This flight test applied the data and lessons learned …

The combined, proven capabilities of Raytheon Missiles & Defense radars safeguard security. A ballistic missile attack is chaotic. In a raid scenario, dozens of these weapons can approach from all directions, traveling at supersonic and even hypersonic speeds. Adversaries can mask them, making them look like something else, all while …

In 1922, on the vacant third floor of a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the founders of what was essentially a tech startup used chalk and string to trace the footprint of their first lab. Within those modest confines, the entrepreneurs had planted the seeds of what would become Raytheon Company, …