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November 01, 2013

Standard Missile-3 IIA completes Critical Design Review
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 01, 2013
Raytheon and its Japanese partner, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, have completed the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA guided missile Critical Design Review (CDR). The CDR verified that the missile's design will meet the stringent, specific operational performance requirements necessary to defeat the projected threats. The SM-3 Block IIA will defeat incoming ballistic missile threats by colliding with them in space, and the program is on track to begin flight testing in 2015. In a precedent- ... read more

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