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BAE SYSTEMS receives $30 million-plus contract for Longbow Hellfire missile system

26 Mar 2001

Ref: 043/2001

BAE Systems has received a contract for more than $30 million from Lockheed Martin Millimeterwave Technologies Inc., (LMMTI) to manufacture millimeterwave transceivers for the Longbow Hellfire missile system. The missile will be deployed on U.S. Army AH-64D and United Kingdom Army WAH-64 Apache helicopters.

The contract extends the work done at BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS), Nashua, New Hampshire, since October 1999 to supply the missile transceivers. Under this latest full rate production contract, IEWS will build 6,329 transceivers for LMMTI to be delivered through 2004. The contract also has options that could extend the quantity to 10,979 units over the next five years.

The transceivers, which are installed in the sensor head of the missile, transmit and receive target tracking signals and relay information to the missile seeker.

According to Kimberly Cadorette, IEWS’ Longbow programme manager, “This contract extends a very successful IEWS program as a major supplier of millimeterwave missile electronics. We are pleased to be providing this critical component of the Longbow missile system.”