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Home» News»Raytheon Wins Contract to Produce 269 SM-2 Missiles
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SM 2 fired during Valiant Shield 2014
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires a Standard Missile (SM) 2 as part of Valiant Shield 2014. Valiant Shield is a U.S.-only exercise integrating U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps assets, offering real-world joint operational experience to develop capabilities that provide a full range of options to defend U.S. interests and those of its allies and partners. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Flewellyn/Released)

Raytheon Wins Contract to Produce 269 SM-2 Missiles

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, was awarded a $578 million contract to produce 54 SM-2 Block IIIAZ all up round upgrades for the United States and 215 Standard Missile-2 all up rounds for seven partner nations.

Naval News Staff 23 Dec 2021

Raytheon press release

The contract includes the production of SM-2™ Block IIIA, IIIAZ, and IIIB variants for the United States, Chile, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, and Taiwan.

Kim Ernzen, vice president of Naval Power at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said:

“SM-2 continues to be a premier ship air-defense weapon for many partner navies worldwide. Here at home, the SM-2 will protect U.S. Navy ships and crews through 2035 and beyond.”

SM-2 defends navies against anti-ship missiles and aircraft out to 90 nautical miles and an altitude of 65,000 feet. SM-2 has an extensive flight test history with more than 2,700 successful live firings.

The SM-2 Block IIIA and IIIB variants include radar seeker technologies in continuous wave and interrupted continuous wave guidance modes, tail controls and solid rocket motor propulsion to engage high-speed maneuvering threats and updated radar targeting and directional warheads. Block IIIB also includes autonomous infrared acquisition.

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Naval News comments:

About SM-2 Block IIIAZ variant: A quantity of SM-2 Block IIIA rounds are being modified for use aboard the Zumwalt-class destroyers. These rounds are designated ‘Block IIIAZʼ and are receiving updates that will enable them to communicate with the SPY-3 radar as well as receiving software updates to enable interrupted continuous wave illumination guidance. The SPY-3 radar uses the ICWI illumination method instead of the CWI of the conventional SM-2/ESSM. USS Zumwalt fired a SM-2 missile for the first time in October 2020.

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