Stunner Interceptor Nears Low-rate Production

摘要

The joint U.S.-Israel David's Sling Weapon System, with its Stunner antimissile interceptor, successfully completed its final integrated program review for 2011 and is entering 2012 with funding for its first full intercept test and low-rate initial production. Raytheon, U.S. partner with prime contractor Rafael of Haifa, was expected to announce Jan. 9 its receipt of a $30.2 million contract from Rafael to build initial firing units and Stunner subsystem hardware. The contract award followed a year-end review in Israel managed by Rafael, the Israel Missile Defense Organization and the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, U.S. and Israeli sources said. "It was a big milestone for them and for us.