Raytheon Contests Pentagon Backing Lockheed Ship-Sinking Missile

Bloomberg Businessweek

Raytheon Co. (RTN), the world’s largest missile maker, is challenging a Pentagon plan to use a Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) anti-ship weapon and is asking for a chance to offer an alternative. “We think it should be an open competition,” [...]

Aerojet’s first SM-3 Block IIA TDACS completes full system hot fire testing

Strategic Defence Intelligence

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a fully integrated flight weight system hot fire test of its throttling divert and attitude control system (TDACS) in support of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA programme. During the trials conducted at the company’s [...]