WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – thirty first August, 2022) Raytheon Missiles and Defense has received a greater than $972 million US Air Force contract to make extra Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), the Defense Department mentioned.
“Raytheon Missiles & Defense is awarded a $972 million contract for upgraded AMRAAM missiles,” the Defense Department mentioned in a press launch on Tuesday.
The deal is the primary AMRAAM contract to provide a whole lot of AIM-120D3 and AIM-120C8 missiles developed beneath the Form, Fit, Function Refresh (F3R) format, which updates each the missile’s {hardware} and software program, the discharge mentioned.
“This contract underscores the importance of AMRAAM in the warfighters’ arsenal,” Raytheon Missiles & Defense Air Power President Paul Ferraro mentioned within the launch. “These missiles, developed under the Form, Fit, Function Refresh have the most advanced hardware and software needed to compete with peer adversaries,”
In addition to offering missiles to each, the US Air Force and the US Navy, beneath the contract, Raytheon may even provide AMRAAM missiles to 19 international locations, extending the manufacturing line for each the US and allied companions, the discharge mentioned.
Under the F3R program, engineers used mannequin-primarily based methods engineering initiatives and different digital applied sciences to improve a number of circuit playing cards and different {hardware} within the steering part of the missile and to re-host legacy software program within the AIM-120D3 and AIM-120C8 AMRAAM missiles, the discharge added.
These variants mix System Improvement Program F3 software program updates with F3R {hardware}, offering large functionality in opposition to superior threats, in response to the discharge.
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