Raytheon Integrates Navy’s SM-6 Missile With Army’s IBCS, LTAMDS

RTX business Raytheon has demonstrated a simulated complex missile engagement at the Valiant Shield 24 multinational, biannual military exercise using combined capabilities from the U.S. Army and Navy.

Integrating the Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor and Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System with the U.S. Navy’s Standard Missile-6 long-range effector showed that the systems can work together to detect and identify an incoming threat, target and track data transfer, launch command and guide to missile intercept, RTX said.

Valiant Shield, held from June 7 to 18, aims to build interoperability among participants to perform multidomain operations throughout the Indo-Pacific.

“The successful test confirms a viable option for INDOPACOM by demonstrating SM-6 integrated with IBCS and LTAMDS,” said Tom Laliberty, president of land and air defense systems at Raytheon. “LTAMDS matched with SM-6 adds an exceptional capability to defeat increasingly diverse and complex threats with a multi-mission missile that flies as far as the radar can see – providing for long-range Army and Joint integrated air and missile defense.”

SM-6, deployable on 60 surface ships, is a Raytheon-built weapon for anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare and ballistic missile defense or sea-based terminal missions.

Raytheon also developed the LTAMDS for the Army.