Navy Rapid Capabilities Process Can Now Deploy New Weapons Faster

Published on January 24, 2024



 

ARLINGTON, Va. – In 2021, unmanned surface vessel Ranger sailed from the West Coast with an innocuous shipping container that hid a guided-missile launcher.

Off the coast of California, the container opened and fired a Standard Missile 6 – ordinarily a mainstay of guided-missile warships equipped with powerful air search radars and the complex Aegis Combat System.

The experiment unshackled the SM-6 missile from a $2 billion warship using a portable version of the Aegis combat system and connections to off board sensors to hit a target over the horizon, Jim Juster, the chief technology officer of Program Executive Officer Integrated Warfare Systems and a former surface warfare officer, said earlier this month at the Surface Navy 2024 exposition.

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