SubscribeIn September 2004, L-3 TE received a build-to-print order from Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, AZ, to deliver 74 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) MK-13 Mod 6 telemetry warhead replacement systems for first article testing and production flight test hardware.
This award to provide telemetry systems for missile testing is the most recent in a long history of orders to support US Government missile development and test programs.
L-3 TE has been supporting test programs for Raytheon Missile Systems, and previously Hughes Missile Systems, dating back to 1988. Our legacy hardware and new products, including transmitters, transponders, data acquisition PCM encoders, and now complete telemetry systems, have become the de facto standard missile test hardware at Raytheon over the last few years.
The RAM Guided Missile Weapon System is the world's most modern ship self-defense weapon and has been specifically designed to provide excep-tional protection for ships of all sizes. RAM is a supersonic, lightweight, quick-reaction, fire-and-forget missile designed to destroy anti-ship missiles. RAM systems are aboard more than 60 ships in the navies of the United States, Germany, Greece, and Korea.
The missile has been fired in over 150 flight tests to date, resulting in a success rate of greater than 95 percent. Such extremely high reliability is the culmination of years of development, testing, and design improvements. The latest design test articles, the Block 1 versions, will include the use of the telemetry system being built by L-3 TE on this order.
"We are honored to continue our long-standing relationship with Raytheon on the RAM program, and we remain as committed as ever to deliver maximum value with the highest level of quality possible -- both in service and technical innovation," said Rod Oren, senior vice president and general manager of L-3 Telemetry-East.
"With recent improvements in program execution and product performance on many other recent and current Raytheon procurements, this effort demonstrates our team's dedication to the program as well as the needs of the telemetry marketplace over the long term."
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