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Kauai, Hawaii. Once the Aegis BMD system guided the SM-3 to the right point in space, the SM-3 kinetic warhead successfully acquired the target and computed an accurate guidance and control intercept trajectory for the hit-to-kill intercept.
Boeing has partnered with Raytheon on SM-3 development since 1996 and is under subcontract to integrate and test the KW avionics, guidance and control hardware and software, as well as the ejection subsystem. In addition to SM-3 round integration, Raytheon provides the KW infrared seeker, the signal and image processor and the integrated KW software.
In addition to its work on the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program, Boeing holds key roles in several other elements of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System architecture. Boeing is prime contractor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system and the Airborne Laser. It also develops and produces the seeker for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3
(PAC-3) Missile.
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $32.4 billion business with 72,000 employees worldwide.
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MBT Missiles System Division
The Barak Weapon System is a highly advanced ship-borne anti-missile-missile point-defense missile system, as well as an anti-air/anti-surface gunnery control system. The system is highly effective against anti-ship sea-skimming missiles and aerial threats.
Barak employs the vertically-launched Barak missiles and Command-to-Line-Of-Sight (CLOS) radar guidance to counter anti-ship missile and airborne attack by aircraft.
The System uses advanced radar techniques for target acquisition, target tracking, own-missile tracking and guidance.
The missile Barak is vertically launched, supersonic, lightweight Barak missile that has a very large and powerful warhead.
The System provides a built-in autonomous capability of tactical picture building and threat evaluation. The System is operated autom
atically from the detection stage up to the target destruction, while providing the operators with a complete engagements situation picture and allowing their manual intervention.
The flexible modular architecture allows tailoring of the Barak Weapon system according to warship size and Customer requirements with respect to the number of Lines Of Sight (LOS), number of missiles, number of operating consoles, etc.
The Barak Weapon System may also interface with various additional sensors (Surveillance Radars, Electro-Optical Directors etc.), guns and weapons. This extended configuration System can be used as an optimized Combat Management System (CMS) for small and medium size ships.
The System was jointly developed by MBT, ELTA and RAFAEL, according to Israel Navy requirements.It has been chosen as the primary hard-kill defense system for the Israeli Navy missile boats, SA'AR-4 and SA'AR-5 types.
The Barak system is installed and operated s
uccessfully on various ships of several navies.
For more information, please see:
WWW.IAI.CO.IL
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Boeing Supports Successful Intercept Test of "Aegis"
Ballistic Missile Defense
ST. LOUIS, April 26, 2007 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] played a key role in today's eighth successful intercept of a ballistic missile target by the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) and the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System.
The test, Flight Test Maritime-11 Event 4 (FTM-11), further validated efforts by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the U.S. Navy to provide a sea-based defense against short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats. FTM-11 Event 4 was the second test of the Block IA version of the SM-3 and the first test of the Block IA with a full-capability solid divert and attitude control system (SDACS). The SDACS maneuvers the kinetic warhead (KW) to the target using multiple pulses of gas generated by the SDACS propellant. Boeing buil
ds several components of the KW, including the guidance electronics, which it integrates with the Raytheon infrared seeker.
"This test successfully demonstrated the modified SM-3 Kinetic Warhead's performance for the first time in an exo-atmospheric intercept. The test showed that modifications made over the last two years have been effective and the SM-3 and its Kinetic Warhead provide the system performance needed by the warfighter to defeat ballistic missile attacks," said Debra Rub-Zenko, vice president of Boeing Integrated Missile Defense. "Boeing is proud to be a member of the industry team committed to providing this extraordinarily effective operational capability to MDA and the Navy."
The SM-3 Block IA, fired from the guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie, destroyed the short-range ballistic missile target launched from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on
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