SM-3 IIA test. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Several variations of the STANDARD Missile (SM), including SM-2, SM-3 IA, SM-3 IB, SM-3 IIA, and SM-6, are currently deployed or in development, providing U.S. and allied troops with unparalleled missile defense capabilities both above and inside the atmosphere.
Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, components support several variations of the Standard Missile. The Mk 72 booster and Mk 104 dual-thrust rocket motor provide first and second stage propulsion. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) helps maneuver the kinetic warhead of some of the SM-3 variants into the target for the final hit-to-kill impact.
Aerojet Rocketdyne incorporates throttling solid rocket technology advancements into the TDACS design to provide increased mission flexibility to the warfighter while maintaining the safety features of solid propellant.
2011 - SM-3 on 19th successful at-sea test intercept from U.S.S. Hopper (DDG 70). (Credit: U.S. Navy via Missile Defense Agency)
Oct. 26, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion critical to the successful intercept test for SM-3 Block IIA Missile during the FTM-45 flight test, conducted by the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency. View 3. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Oct. 26, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion critical to the successful intercept test for SM-3 Block IIA Missile during the FTM-45 flight test, conducted by the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency. View 2. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Oct. 26, 2018 - FTM-45: Upon acquiring and tracking the target missile, launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii, the U.S.S. JOHN FINN (DDG-113) launched an SM-3 Block IIA guided missile, which intercepted the target. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 4. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 3. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 2. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Dec. 11, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne provides SM-3 Block IIA reliable first-stage propulsion and Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System. View 1. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
June 5, 2008 - SM-2 launch: A short range, unitary, ballistic missile, Scud-like, target launches from the Mobile Launch Platform, the decommissioned U.S.S. Tripoli, in a MDA flight test at Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
April 15, 2011 - A SM-3 is launched from the U.S.S. O'Kane in a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy test in an infrared interception. The SM-3 intercepted a target missile launched from Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
December 14, 2016 - The MDA and sailors aboard U.S.S. John Paul Jones (DDG 53), an Aegis baseline 9.C1 equipped destroyer, successfully fired a salvo of two SM-6 Dual I missiles against a complex medium-range ballistic missile target. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
Feb. 24, 2015 - Three short-range ballistic missile targets are launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, in support of FTX-19. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
March 26, 2020 - Raytheon and Aerojet Rocketdyne provide propulsion systems for Raytheon’s Standard Missile family. (Credit: Raytheon)
Aug. 1, 2015 - As part of a joint Missile Defense Agency/U.S. Navy missile defense test, the U.S.S. John Paul Jones detected, tracked and successfully engaged the target using an SM-6 Dual I missile. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
May 25, 2016 - The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard U.S.S. Hopper (DDG 70) successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile off the west coast of Hawaii. (Credit: Missile Defense Agency)
