National Defense:
PARIS — The Standard Missile-6 could once again be repurposed for new applications, an industry executive said June 19.
The SM-6 was originally designed to defend ships from air-and-missile attacks. A few years ago the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office sponsored an initiative that gave it an offensive anti-ship strike capability. Now, Raytheon is taking steps to enable it to be deployed as a land-based system.
“We are looking at that land-based capability to put that layered-defense launching construct there,” company Vice President for Strategic and Naval Systems Mitch Stevison told National Defense at the Paris Air Show. “We are having conversations with customers all the time about it. They’re very interested, so we’re investing.”
