DefenceTalkTurkey has cancelled a multi-billion-dollar deal with China to build its first anti-missile system that had alarmed Ankara’s allies in NATO, a Turkish official said on Sunday. “The deal was cancelled,” the official from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s office told AFP. “One of the main reasons is that we will launch our own national missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/turkey-cancels-3-4-bln-missile-deal-with-china-65838/

DefenceTalkThe United States Army is acquiring upgrade kits to make the combat-proven Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defense system better at detecting and destroying threats, cost less to operate, and run even more reliably than it already does. The U.S. Army recently awarded Raytheon Company (RTN) a contract modification to an existing contract for radar […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-invests-in-patriot-radar-modernization-upgrades-65816/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company successfully fired two new Pike 40 mm precision-guided munitions from a standard tube grenade launcher during flight tests at Mile High Resources in Texas. Both rounds landed within the targeted impact area after flying more than 2,300 yards. “Pike uses a digital, semi-active laser seeker to engage both fixed and slow-moving, mid-range targets,” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/miniature-pike-munitions-go-2-for-2-in-first-guided-tests-65628/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company has been awarded an additional $18.6 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to help the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (GoHKJ) secure its borders with Syria. The award is for increment three of DTRA’s Jordan Border Security Project (JBSP). Raytheon expands border security work in Kingdom of Jordan […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-to-boost-jordans-border-security-with-syria-65590/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has selected Raytheon Company to be the prime contractor and systems integrator for the agency’s Network Security Deployment (NSD) Division. NSD is responsible for the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS), a system providing the vital infrastructure that assists more than 100 federal civilian government agencies with the protection […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-to-provide-mission-critical-cybersecurity-solutions-to-us-dhs-65506/

DefenceTalkWeapon system tracks and engages target in LCS 4 exercise For the first time, the U.S. Navy successfully fired a tactical missile from a SeaRAM launcher on an Independence variant littoral combat ship. The missile was launched Aug. 14 during a live-fire exercise at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division sea range off the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-searam-missile-fired-us-navy-littoral-combat-ship-65403/

DefenceTalkThe Netherlands Ministry of Defense is adding Raytheon Company’s (NYSE: RTN) Excalibur Ib artillery rounds to its arsenal under a previously announced foreign military sales agreement, underscoring growing international interest in the precision-guided projectile. The Netherlands is the second Excalibur lb customer in Europe after Sweden, the U.S. government’s development partner for the 155 mm […]https://www.defencetalk.com/netherlands-orders-raytheon-excalibur-ib-precision-munitions-65310/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company (RTN) is working closely with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) – Division Newport to enhance the features of the company’s AN/AQS-20A minehunting sonar. Together, the team is analyzing the system’s synthetic aperture sonar to fully optimize its ability to capture and process high- and low-resolution images of mine threats undersea. “Extending our […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-and-us-navy-collaborate-to-optimize-minehunting-sonar-65222/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Army and Raytheon Company successfully test fired an AIM-9X Block II missile from the Army’s ground-based Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2-I (IFPC 2-I) Block 1 Multi-Mission Launcher (MML). AIM-9X is traditionally fired from aircraft toward aerial targets and this test demonstrated that the latest AIM-9X can be used in both air-to-air combat […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-air-to-air-missile-scores-direct-hit-from-us-army-ground-launcher-65187/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted the first flight test of the Raytheon Company Standard Missile-3 Block IIA. The interceptor’s bigger rocket motors and more capable kill vehicle will engage threats sooner and protect larger regions from short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats. The final assembly of the Raytheon-made Standard Missile-3 Block […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-begins-flight-testing-advanced-missile-defense-interceptor-64421/