Aussies investing over $850M in new Kongsberg NSM, JSM plant
The factory will manufacture and service Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) and Joint Strike Missiles (JSM), the first non-Norwegian facility to do so.
The factory will manufacture and service Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) and Joint Strike Missiles (JSM), the first non-Norwegian facility to do so.
"It's our first robot system like this [that] we're actually going to keep. So, I'm not surprised that there's turbulence in the key technologies, including the radio comm link, which is foundational to the whole thing," said Army acquisition head Doug Bush.
"The LPDs need the ability to reach out and defend themselves and sink another ship," said Marine Maj. Gen. Tracy King, the Navy’s director of expeditionary warfare.
As the surface Navy intensively strives to achieve the cross domain capabilities so essential to warfighting success against a near-peer competitor, Raytheon is using its wide spectrum of defense technologies to support those efforts. Modern warfare increasingly requires operations across all of the five domains of land air, surface, subsurface, space and cyberspace. A key […]