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Navy/USMC

Raytheon Works With Ducommun For NSM Fire Control System

Monday, September 11th, 2017

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Raytheon Works With Ducommun For NSM Fire Control System

The Navy's test of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) on a Littoral Combat Ship in 2018. (Photo: US Navy)

Raytheon [RTN] chose to work with Ducommun [DCO] to build the fire control systems for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), Raytheon said Monday.The NSM is a long-range anti-ship and land-attack missile that originates with a missile design developed in by Kongsberg for the Royal Norwegian Navy. The long-range missile can hit enemy targets up to 100 miles away, flies at a very low altitude over the water or other terrain, performs evasive maneuvers to counter defensive systems, and uses a…

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