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Raytheon Pitching Missile Defense Variant of DDG-1000

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

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By Dave Ahearn Raytheon [RTN] has a proposal on the table with the Navy to make the emergent Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyers missile defense platforms, according to a company official. In an interview yesterday with sister publication Space and Missile Defense Report, Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems, noted that the Zumwalt-class destroyers have stealth capabilities, able to move in close to enemy shores without being detected by enemy radar. "The good thing about Zumwalt is, it's really the advanced…

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