The company will assemble the 74 SM-6 rounds, spares, containers and services at its Huntsville, Alabama-based facility, Raytheon said Tuesday.
“Combatant commanders want their deployed ships armed with as many of these interceptors as possible, and we’re ramping up production to meet that need, â said Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon.
SM-6 is a surface-to-air supersonic missile system the company built to target manned and unmanned aerial vehicles and fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft.