Ramona Adams
Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6 has set a record for the U.S. Navy‘s longest range surface-to-air intercept after the missile engaged an over-the-horizon target.
The company said Friday the SM-6 was deployed from the Navy’s USS Princeton cruiser that features an Aegis baseline 9 combat system.
The missile also broke its own record in January after SM-6 surpassed its June 2014 milestone when it engaged the longest range cruise missile target, Raytheon added.
Raytheon rolled out the first full-rate production SM-6 from its Redstone Arsenal facility in April 2015.
SM-6 is built to provide over-the-horizon air defense to protect Navy vessels against fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
