Raytheon Completes Patriot Live-Fire Test with 3-for-3 Successes
TEWKSBURY, Mass., Feb. 7, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) Configuration 3 Patriot system, composed of a Patriot Guidance
Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T), a Patriot launcher, engagement control station
and Patriot radar, destroyed a surrogate cruise missile target to complete
a perfect three-for-three mission set as part of a two-month evaluation at
White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
The GEM-T missile is a cost-effective, lethal interceptor designed to
defeat sophisticated land-attack cruise missiles and a range of ballistic
missile threats through applying technical enhancements and modifications
to the Army's Patriot missile fleet. GEM-T is a complementary and
affordable missile for the Patriot System.
"These successful tests reflect Raytheon's commitment to ensure our
Patriot systems and missiles continue to provide our warfighters with a
cost effective, no doubt air defense capability," said Rick Yuse, vice
president, Integrated Air Defense at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
(IDS). "This is another positive step forward for the Configuration-3
Patriot system demonstrating its 'first time every time' dependability."
Using a Configuration-3 missile system with its newly developed PDB-6
(post deployment build-6) system software, a government evaluation team
successfully completed three missions that met all test objectives. The
objectives included demonstrating the performance of the GEM-T missile
improvement using PDB-6 software and demonstrating the system's capability
to detect, track and intercept ballistic, theater ballistic missile and
low- altitude cruise missile threats.
Raytheon's integrated fire unit, consisting of the Patriot launcher,
engagement control station and Patriot radar system, provided the battle
management, command and control, and communications to ensure the
Configuration-3 system achieved test objectives.
Raytheon IDS is the prime contractor for the Patriot system and system
integrator for the Configuration-3 system. In this role, Raytheon IDS
ensures that all Patriot system components provide the warfighter a
reliable and lethal capability to defeat the threats in current and future
combat environments.
Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader in Joint Battlespace
Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad
international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile
Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland
Security.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is an industry
leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 80,000
people worldwide.
SOURCE Raytheon Company