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Orbital ATK Delivers 500th AARGM to US Navy

Significant Delivery Milestone for Key Weapon Against Surface-to-Air Threats

Having achieved a significant milestone with the delivery of its 500th Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) to the US Navy (USN). Orbital ATK marked the occasion with a ceremony at the Orbital ATK production facility in Northridge, CA/USA, on 31 May. Attendees included 30th Congressional District US Representative Brad Sherman, Program Manager for Direct and Time Sensitive Strike Weapons (PMA-242) Capt. Al Mousseau, and other USN senior executives and industry suppliers.

Orbital ATK has steadily increased production and delivery of AARGM’s much-needed capability to the USN,” Cary Ralston, Vice President and General Manager of Orbital ATK’s Defense Electronic Systems division of the Defense Systems Group, said. “Our dedicated workforce coupled with our close partnership with the USN, Italian Air Force, our industry partners and suppliers has been paramount to our success. We look forward to our continued collective success. The delivery of the 500th weapon represents a commitment by this government- industry team, from the supply base to the prime contractor, to deliver a weapon system with a significant warfighting capability in the Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defense mission area.”

AARGM provides a key capability to US and allied forces to defeat enemy surface-to-air radar systems. It is a supersonic, air-launched tactical missile system, upgrading legacy AGM- 88 HARM systems with advanced capability to perform Destruction of Enemy Air Defense missions. AARGM is able to rapidly engage traditional and advanced land- and sea-based air-defence threats, as well as non-radar time-sensitive strike targets. Leveraging a digital receiver set, GPS/INS guidance, digital terrain data base and the game-changing millimeter wave (MMW) terminal guidance seeker, AARGM provides the most advanced system that can also provide pilots with in-cockpit, real-time electronic order of battle situational awareness against today’s modern surface-to-air threats.

 

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06/07/2017

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