While the company says a prototype launcher is "nearly complete," in the meantime the Army is receiving Raytheon’s AIM-9X interceptor with plans to confirm that thermal management problems have been solved.
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The Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS), developed by Raytheon, recently completed an exhaustive set of Contractor Verification Tests at the U.S. Army s White Sands Missile Range in N
Six LTAMDS radars are being tested in parallel to speed this transformational warfighting capability to U.S. Army and international air defense forces.
The U.S. Army has completed contractor verification testing of its RTX-made next-generation air and missile defense radar at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to validate the technology's ability to defeat real and simulated threats. During the test, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor was connected to the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System and completed 11 mission sets in simulated environments, RTX said Thursday.