Lockheed Martin has been chosen to build the U.S. Army’s new mid-range missile prototype, landing a nearly $340 million contract to take elements from naval missiles to forge the new weapon, the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office announced Nov. 6.Through another transaction authority agreement, Lockheed will take the Navy’s Raytheon-built SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles to put together a Mid-Range Capability, or MRC, prototype...
..that consists of launchers, missiles and a battery operations center, according to an RCCTO statement.
A variant of the Tomahawk missile was used in a land-based cruise missile capability test last year. The SM-6 is a long-range, anti-air missile that has a surface mode.
This mid-range missile — expected to hit targets at distances beyond 500 kilometers — is to be fielded to an operational battery in fiscal 2023....MORE
