Forest to add AESA to SK order

WASHINGTON - Raytheon Co. was awarded a contract valued at $491 million to continue production of its Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles (AMRAAM) for the U.S. Air Force. The contract includes missiles, radars and other related equipment, and runs through Feb. 28, 2017. The latest AMRAAM contract includes missiles to be sold to South Korea, Oman, Singapore, and Thailand under government-to-government foreign military sales. (Source: Reuters, 12/22/14) Central Mississippi Note: Raytheon’s Space and Airborne System’s Forest, Miss., assembly plant produces hundreds of tactical Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars for F/A-18s, F-15 and F-16s jets. It recently produced its 500th AESA drop-in radar design that can track both air and surface targets at the same time. South Korea had chosen the F-16 AESA model, known as the Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR), to upgrade its fleet.