DefenceTalkRaytheon Company’s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system used a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 for the first time to intercept an incoming target during a U.S. Navy live-fire exercise at China Lake in California. Raytheon Company’s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system used a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 for the first time to intercept an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/searam-hits-target-with-newest-missile-variant-in-us-navy-test-66347/

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 U.S. Navy successfully achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the Block 2 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) May 15. RAM is a highly successful, 39-year U.S. cooperative program with the German government that has yielded the U.S. taxpayer more than $800 million in cost avoidance […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-operational-capability-for-new-rolling-airframe-missile-64242/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company (RTN) delivered the first Block 2 variant of its Rolling Airframe Missile system to the U.S. Navy as part of the company’s 2012 Low Rate Initial Production contract. RAM Block 2 is a significant performance upgrade featuring enhanced kinematics, an evolved radio frequency receiver, and an improved control system. “As today’s threats continue […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-delivers-first-block-2-rolling-airframe-missiles-to-us-navy-60443/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy completed the first fleet firing of Raytheon’s Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 as part of its ongoing developmental and operational testing (DT/OT). In an at-sea test conducted from the USS Arlington (LPD 24), two RAM Block 2 missiles engaged a subsonic target in a scenario designed to demonstrate the advanced missile’s defensive […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rolling-airframe-missile-block-2-completes-initial-fleet-firing-48701/