Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System

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Overview 

A key element of the Missile Defense Agency's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System is the Raytheon-built STANDARD Missile. Several variations of the STANDARD Missile (SM), including SM-2, SM-3 IA, SM-3 IB, SM-3 IIA, and SM-6, are currently deployed or in development, providing U.S. and allied troops with unparalleled missile defense capabilities both above and inside the atmosphere.

Key Features

Our Role

Aerojet Rocketdyne components support several variations of the Standard Missile. The Mk 72 booster and Mk 104 dual-thrust rocket motor provide first and second stage propulsion. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) helps maneuver the kinetic warhead of some of the SM-3 variants into the target for the final hit-to-kill impact.

Aerojet Rocketdyne incorporates throttling solid rocket technology advancements into the TDACS design to provide increased mission flexibility to the warfighter while maintaining the safety features of solid propellant.

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June 5, 2008-SM-2 launch: A short range, unitary, ballistic missile, Scud-like, target launches from the Mobile Launch Platform, the decommissioned USS Tripoli, in a MDA flight test June 5, 2008. Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, HI. Credit: MDA
May 25, 2016-The MDA & U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS Hopper (DDG 70) successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25 & 26 off the west coast of Hawaii. Credit: MDA
Aug. 1, 2015-As part of a joint Missile Defense Agency/US Navy missile defense test, the USS John Paul Jones detected, tracked, and successfully engaged the target using an SM-6 Dual I missile. Credit: MDA
Three short-range ballistic missile targets are launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, in support of FTX-19, February 24, 2015. Credit: MDA
The MDA & sailors aboard USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53), an Aegis baseline 9.C1 equipped destroyer, successfully fired a salvo of two SM-6 Dual I missiles against a complex medium-range ballistic missile target, Dec. 14, 2016 Credit: MDA
A SM-3 is launched from the USS O'KANE in a joint MDA, U.S. Army & U.S. Navy test, April 15, 2011. (Photo:infrared interception) The SM-3 intercepted a target missile launched from Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Credit: MDA
March 26, 2020 - Raytheon and Aerojet Rocketdyne provide propulsion systems for Raytheon’s Standard Missile family. Credit: Raytheon, Aerojet Rocketdyne strike $1 billion strategic sourcing deal for Standard Missile programs, Raytheon Release
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 4. Credit: MDA
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 3. Credit: MDA
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 2. Credit: MDA
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 1. Credit: MDA
Oct. 26, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion critical to the successful intercept test for SM-3 Block IIA Missile during the FTM-45 flight test, conducted by the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency. View 3. Credit: MDA
Oct. 26, 2018 - FTM-45: Upon acquiring and tracking the target missile, launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii, the USS JOHN FINN (DDG-113) launched an SM-3 Block IIA guided missile which intercepted the target. Credit: MDA
Oct. 26, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion critical to the successful intercept test for SM-3 Block IIA Missile during the FTM-45 flight test, conducted by the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency. View 2. Credit: MDA
2011 - SM-3 on 19th successful at-sea test intercept from USS Hopper (DDG 70). Credit: U.S. Navy via MDA

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