Delays to AMRAAM tech refresh program affecting other missile improvements

By Rachel Cohen / April 11, 2018 at 5:00 AM
Several projects underway to improve Raytheon's Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile are taking longer than expected, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program's complexity is spurring changes to the weapon as well, the Pentagon said in a December 2017 Selected Acquisition Report. Earlier this month, the Defense Department publicized its latest round of SARs, which include information that is current as of the first few months of 2018. Inside Defense obtained an unclassified copy of the AMRAAM section April 6. Multiple...

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