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It will also be used to construct the Standard Missile-6, which is used to defend naval vessels.
FORBES: Raytheon Opens Up Automated Missile Factory In Alabama
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The facility will be primarily used to build the Standard Missile-3, which is used to defend against ballistic missiles.
FORBES: Raytheon Opens Up Automated Missile Factory In Alabama
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Raytheon will have to compete with other companies for the right to build the more capable later versions of the Standard Missile, including Aegis integrator Lockheed Martin.
FORBES: Missile Defense Becomes A Navy Mission
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An expanded suite of ballistic missile defenses including 20 Patriot and 10 THAAD battalions and acquisition of sufficient Standard Missile 3s to fully load every Aegis BMD-capable ship.
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For the fifth time out of six attempts, Navy ships successfully tracked, intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile in-fight, using their existing AEGIS fleet air defense systems and a new Standard Missile, dubbed the SM-3.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Go Navy missile defense!
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One result was that Raytheon was able to develop a new version of the Standard Missile used by the Navy for air defense engagements designated the SM-3 that was designed specifically to intercept ballistic targets.
FORBES: Missile Defense Becomes A Navy Mission
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Accordingly, the president should immediately announce that, henceforth, Aegis ships equipped with existing Standard Missile II Block IV missiles will be tasked to provide whatever anti-missile protection they can to U.S. forces and allies and to the American people at home.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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This would bring to six the number of Aegis platforms in Japan's inventory, giving it a considerable infrastructure to provide for an early and potentially highly effective anti-missile defense of the Home Islands by equipping these ships with both the lower-tier Standard Missile (SM) 2 Block IVA missile and upper-tier SM3 Block II missile as they become available.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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Unlike the first four ships, though, the next two AEGIS destroyers will reportedly have the software in place to deploy (without retrofitting) these Standard Missiles required for anti-missile purposes.
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