Japan Achieves Second Ballistic Missile Intercept Using Raytheon Standard Missile-3

Japan Achieves Second Ballistic Missile Intercept Using Raytheon Standard
Missile-3

KAUAI, Hawaii, Oct. 28, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY --
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force achieved another ballistic missile
intercept in space using a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-built Standard
Missile-3. During the Oct. 27 test, the SM-3 Block IA missile engaged and
destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target more than 100 miles above
the Pacific Ocean.

Personnel at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai launched
the ballistic missile target. The crew of the Japanese destroyer JS Myoko
(DDG-175) detected and tracked the target before firing the intercepting
missile.

"Today's hit-to-kill intercept is further proof that Japan can successfully
deploy a sea-based ballistic missile defense system," said Dr. Taylor W.
Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. "The U.S. has a key ally that
can defend itself against the growing threat of ballistic missiles."

Raytheon and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, under contract to the U.S. Missile
Defense Agency and the Japanese Ministry of Defense, are developing the
next-generation SM-3 Block IIA missile. The new missile will include larger
second- and third-stage rocket motors and a larger kinetic warhead to provide
a greater area of defense against more sophisticated threats.

SM-3 is being developed as part of MDA's sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile
Defense system. The missiles are deployed on U.S. Aegis cruisers and
destroyers and Japanese destroyers to defend against short- to
intermediate-range ballistic missile threats in the ascent and midcourse
phases of flight.

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Contact:
John Patterson
520.794.4559 (office)
520.440.2194 (mobile)
john_b_patterson@raytheon.com

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(mobile), john_b_patterson@raytheon.com