AUSA: It’s one of the Army’s top priorities, the Precision Strike Missile, a weapon to replace the venerable ATACMS missile built by Lockheed.
Lockheed is competing for the prize, and it’s the incumbent, which can be a powerful factor in winning a competition. Raytheon, maker of the Patriot, SM-3 and SM-6 missiles, is driving hard to provide a longer range missile now that the US has withdrawn from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and the Army hopes to buy a missile with a range of up to 800 kilometers. The INF Treaty limited ballistic missiles to a range of less than 500 km.
Watch the video below for Raytheon’s take on the competition, then click here for Lockheed’s pitch!
The original version of this article mistakenly said the INF Treaty limited missiles to a range of 500 miles. The INF limit is in fact 500 kilometers (310.7 miles), as stated in the current, corrected version.
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