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Standard Missile-3
News Releases
Raytheon's dual-band datalink tested with Thales radar
Photo Gallery
Media Coverage
Test Success Signals Green Light For SM-3 Block IB (AINonline)
Faith in Raytheon missile 'growing' (Arizona Daily Star)
Video: Watch a Navy missile interceptor scream into the sky (Fox News)
New Raytheon missile interceptor hits its mark (Arizons Daily Star)
Raytheon's newest SM-3 takes out separating short-range ballistic missile target (AL.com)
Raytheon’s Datalink: A New Naval Standard for the Standard? (Defense Industry Daily)
Feature Stories
From “Bumblebee” to Defender of Continents: Standard Missile Family Marks 60th Anniversary
New Radar-to-Interceptor Connection Could Broaden Europe’s Missile Defense
Navy Uses Raytheon SM-3 and Space Sensor to Destroy Missile Target
Factory of the Future is Key to Missile Defense
Newest SM-3 takes out another ballistic missile target
Evolving Technology to Strengthen Missile Defense
More Information
The SM-3 is a defensive weapon used by the U.S. Navy to destroy short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The SM-3 destroys incoming ballistic missile threats by colliding with them, a concept sometimes described as “hitting a bullet with a bullet.” The impact is the equivalent of a 10-ton truck traveling at 600 mph.
In a recent test, a new version of the U.S. Navy’s premier missile interceptor destroyed a complex, separating target high above the Pacific Ocean, moving the SM-3 program one step closer to a decision on full-rate production. SM-3 Block IB has an improved, two-color infrared seeker and an advanced system of guidance rockets, the Throttleable Divert and Attitude Control System, that helps steer the missile’s kill vehicle into the target’s path.
The SM-3 program is a critical piece of the United States’ Phased Adaptive Approach for missile defense.
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Facts about the SM-3 program:
- More than 130 SM-3s have been delivered to U.S. and Japanese navies ahead of schedule and under cost.
- Raytheon is on track to deliver the next-generation SM-3 Block IB in 2015.
- SM-3 Block IB will be deployed in both sea-based and land-based modes.
The improved SM-3 Block IB has:
- A Throttleable Divert and Attitude Control System, also known as the TDACS.
- Uses short bursts of precision propulsion to steer the missile toward incoming targets
- An enhanced, two-color infrared seeker
Product Line: Air & Missile Defense
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