The US Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth $165 million for Lot 9 full rate production (FRP) of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM).
Assets provided by Northrop Grumman will include all-up round missiles and captive air training missiles for the US Navy and foreign military sales.
Gordon Turner, Vice President, advanced weapons, Northrop Grumman, said: “AARGM provides the US Navy and allies unmatched protection to detect and defeat surface-to-air-threats regardless of threat tactics and capabilities.”
Northrop Grumman’s AARGM is a supersonic, air-launched tactical missile system, upgrading legacy AGM-88 HARM systems with advanced capability to perform suppression and destruction of enemy air defence missions. AARGM is the most advanced system for pilots against today’s modern surface-to-air threats. It is able to rapidly engage land- and sea-based air-defence threats, as well as striking, time-sensitive targets.
AARGM is a US Navy and Italian Air Force international cooperative major defence acquisition programme with the US Navy as the executive agent. AARGM is currently deployed and supporting operational requirements for the US Navy and US Marine Corps.
The missile is integrated into the weapons systems on the FA-18C/D Hornet, FA-18E/F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler aircraft and the Tornado Electronic Combat and Reconnaissance (ECR) aircraft utilised by the Italian Air Force.
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