Ram Block2

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Of een IRIS-T variant.

Ik vraag me trouwens af of dat VL niet een hoop tijdverlies geeft tegen bepaalde doelen.

Voordeel is natuurlijk een 360graden dekking, en dat er sneller op doelen in verschillende hoeken gereageerd kan worden.

Misschien iets meer maar nu heb je geen mk144 launcher met onderhoud etc. nodig.

Waarom nu weer iris-T, ram voldoet prima. Samenwerking met de Duitsers zal ook wel mogelijk zijn.

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Er komt ook een verticaal gelanceerde versie, geschikt voor de EXLS van LM, deze kan je in een mk41 cel "pluggen" en is een soort quadpack zoals de ESSM.

Lijkt me ideaal naast ESSM en een CIWS zoals Goalkeeper (m-fregat vervanger?) Ook heb je dan geen losse launcher nodig maar kun je gebruik maken van je huidige systemen (ZProv MLU?)

Of een IRIS-T variant.

Ik vraag me trouwens af of dat VL niet een hoop tijdverlies geeft tegen bepaalde doelen.

Voordeel is natuurlijk een 360graden dekking, en dat er sneller op doelen in verschillende hoeken gereageerd kan worden.

[Ace1]

Er komt ook een verticaal gelanceerde versie, geschikt voor de EXLS van LM, deze kan je in een mk41 cel "pluggen" en is een soort quadpack zoals de ESSM.

Lijkt me ideaal naast ESSM en een CIWS zoals Goalkeeper (m-fregat vervanger?) Ook heb je dan geen losse launcher nodig maar kun je gebruik maken van je huidige systemen (ZProv MLU?)

Er is een single cell van de VLS Mk41 beschikbaar.

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/ms2/documents/launchers/Single_Cell_Launcher_brochure.pdf

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Er komt ook een verticaal gelanceerde versie, geschikt voor de EXLS van LM, deze kan je in een mk41 cel "pluggen" en is een soort quadpack zoals de ESSM.

Lijkt me ideaal naast ESSM en een CIWS zoals Goalkeeper (m-fregat vervanger?) Ook heb je dan geen losse launcher nodig maar kun je gebruik maken van je huidige systemen (ZProv MLU?)

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Raytheon receives $155.6 million Rolling Airframe Missile contract

Largest RAM agreement for German navy

TUCSON, Ariz., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded a $155.6 million contract to manufacture Block 2 Rolling Airframe Missiles for delivery to the German navy. It represents the largest single RAM award by Germany. The contract was awarded in Raytheon's first quarter of 2013.

RAM is a cooperative program between the U.S. and German governments with industry support from Raytheon and RAMSYS of Germany. The contract calls for production work to be shared between both companies.

"This sale is the result of more than 35 years of unmatched testing achievements and capability improvements," said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems. "It complements the $100 million RAM Block 2 production contracts with the U.S. Navy signed in 2012 and follows our company's 11 critical Block 2 development test flights. RAM is on solid footing to begin government testing in May."

Robust International Fleet Self-defense System
RAM is a supersonic, lightweight, quick reaction, fire-and-forget missile providing defense against anti-ship cruise missiles, helicopter and airborne threats, and hostile surface craft. The missile's autonomous dual-mode, passive radio frequency and infrared guidance design provides a high-firepower capability for engaging multiple threats simultaneously. RAM is aboard nearly 100 ships as an integral self-defense weapon for the navies of Egypt, Germany, Greece, Japan, Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

The RAM Block 2 upgrade includes a four-axis independent control actuator system and an increase in rocket motor capability, increasing the missile's effective range and delivering a significant increase in maneuverability. The improved missile also incorporates an upgraded passive radio frequency seeker and a digital autopilot.

http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2303

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Raytheon awarded $51 million to produce new Rolling Airframe Missile

RAM Block 2 features new rocket motor and guidance improvements

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a $51.7 million contract for low rate initial production of the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2. The contract includes options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to more than $105 million. RAM Block 2 features enhanced kinematics, an evolved radio frequency receiver, a new rocket motor, and an upgraded control and autopilot system.

"This next-generation RAM will enable U.S. and allied naval warfighters to defeat the more sophisticated threats emerging around the world today," said Rick Nelson, Raytheon Missile Systems' vice president of Naval Weapon Systems. "Through Raytheon's collaborative relationship with our German partner RAMSYS, we continue to improve and expand the capabilities of RAM."

The contract award follows a series of key milestones, including successful guided flight tests for RAM Block 2. The program is preparing for another intercept test later this year, as well as initiation of government developmental testing in support of fleet deployment.

"RAM has been fired in more than 300 flight tests with a 95 percent success rate," said Nelson. "We intend to bring the same or even greater reliability to RAM Block 2."

About RAM

RAM is a supersonic, lightweight, quick reaction, fire-and-forget missile providing defense against anti-ship cruise missiles, helicopter and airborne threats, and hostile surface craft. For more than 35 years, the U.S. and Germany have worked together developing and maintaining RAM. Development, production work and funding are shared between Raytheon and RAMSYS.

http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2147

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RAM Block 2 completes development flight test with salvo firing
By Richard Scott

10/23/2012

Raytheon Missile Systems has successfully completed a final development flight test for the RIM-116C Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 ship self-defence missile.

Guided Vehicle Test 3 (GTV-3) saw a salvo of Block 2 missiles engage two separate targets, rounding off the development flight test programme and paving the way for Integrated Testing with the US Navy (USN).

A development of the RIM-116B RAM Block 1 missile, the RIM-116C RAM Block 2 has kinematic and sensor upgrades designed to expand the missile's engagement envelope so as to defeat more manoeuvrable and higher speed anti-ship cruise missiles. Raytheon Missile Systems and the RAM-System GmbH (RAMSYS) consortium of Diehl BGT and MBDA Deutschland GmbH in Germany are prime contractors and co-operating partners for the RAM programme.

A quick-reacting, all-weather inner-layer defence system, RAM adopts the 'fire and forget' principle by using the missile's integral dual mode guidance – based on passive radio frequency and infrared channels – in a lock-on after launch mode.

The Block 2 upgrade expands the missile's effective engagement envelope by introducing a larger dual-thrust rocket motor and independent four-canard control actuator system to increase effective range by about 50 per cent and deliver a three-fold improvement in manoeuvrability.

http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?id=1065972640

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Raytheon, US Navy complete first phase of RAM Block 2 developmental testing

Engagements validate defensive weapon's upgrades

TUCSON, Ariz., May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --The U.S. Navy completed the first series of developmental and operational testing (DT/OT) of Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2.

In at-sea tests conducted from the U.S. Navy's Self-Defense Test Ship, RAM Block 2 missiles engaged two targets in tactical dual-salvo scenarios designed to demonstrate the advanced missile's defensive capabilities. The DT/OT tests successfully engaged high-speed, maneuvering and sub-sonic, maneuvering targets with all four RAM Block 2 missiles meeting test objectives.

"RAM Block 2's success in these developmental tests follows the completion of a series of guidance test vehicle flight tests," said Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems' Naval and Area Mission Defense product line. "RAM Block 2's increased kinematic capability and its advanced guidance system will continue to give the warfighter an unfair advantage in the fight."

Raytheon and its manufacturing partner RAMSYS of Germany were awarded the second U.S. Navy RAM Block 2 low-rate production contact for 61 missiles in December 2012. In addition, as previously reported, the company received a $155.6 million Block 2 production contract for the German navy earlier this year.

The RAM Block 2 upgrade includes a four-axis independent control actuator system and an increase in rocket motor capability, increasing the missile's effective range and delivering a significant increase in maneuverability. The improved missile also incorporates an upgraded passive radio frequency seeker, a digital autopilot and engineering changes in selected infrared seeker components.

RAM is a supersonic, lightweight, quick reaction, fire-and-forget missile providing defense against anti-ship cruise missiles, helicopter and airborne threats, and hostile surface craft. The missile's autonomous dual-mode, passive radio frequency and infrared guidance design provide a high-firepower capability for engaging multiple threats simultaneously. RAM is installed, or planned for installation, aboard more than 165 ships as an integral self-defense weapon for the navies of Egypt, Germany, Greece, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

About RAM

Extremely high reliability resulting from years of development, testing and design improvements.
Four-axis independent control actuator system with increased rocket motor capability.
Upgraded passive radio frequency seeker, a digital autopilot and improved infrared seeker.

http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2341

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Nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de Ram CIWS

RAM Block 2 completes first phase developmental testing



Raytheon has announced that its Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 has completed the first series of developmental and operational testing (DT/OT) by the US Navy.

The tests saw the RAM Block 2 missiles successfully engage two targets in tactical dual-salvo scenarios designed to demonstrate the advanced missile's defensive capabilities, with all four RAM Block 2 missiles meeting test objectives. The at-sea DT/OT testing was conducted from the US Navy's Self-Defense Test Ship.

The testing is part of the work being carried out to fulfil the low-rate production contract awarded to Raytheon and its manufacturing partner, RAMSYS, in December 2012 for the production of 61 US Navy RAM Block 2 missiles. The company also received $155.6 million Block 2 production contract for the German navy earlier this year.

Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems' Naval and Area Mission Defense product line, said: 'RAM Block 2's success in these developmental tests follows the completion of a series of guidance test vehicle flight tests. RAM Block 2's increased kinematic capability and its advanced guidance system will continue to give the warfighter an unfair advantage in the fight.'

The RAM Block 2 upgrade includes a four-axis independent control actuator system and an increase in rocket motor capability, increasing the missile's effective range and delivering a significant increase in manoeuvrability. The improved missile also incorporates an upgraded passive radio frequency seeker, a digital autopilot and engineering changes in selected infrared seeker components.

RAM is a supersonic, lightweight, quick reaction, fire-and-forget missile providing defence against anti-ship cruise missiles, helicopter and airborne threats, and hostile surface craft. The missile's autonomous dual-mode, passive radio frequency and infrared guidance design provide a high-firepower capability for engaging multiple threats simultaneously.

http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/defence-notes/ram-block-2-completes-first-phase-developmental-te/