Raytheon, the electronics and defense contracting mainstay has decided to open a new testing and manufacturing facility in Alabama. The manufacturing plant can be a new facility for their missile division. Raytheon Missile Systems has been headquartered in Tucson, Arizona for decades. The Tucson location won’t be closing. Raytheon is one of the world’s largest defense contractors, and has regularly led the way in other fields, especially in electronic technology. Resource for this article – Raytheon selects Alabama for new missile plant by Personal Money Store.
A new shop in Tucson just was not happening
According to Business Week, Raytheon Missile Systems needed a new manufacturing facility for a ship defense project, and a sea-based interceptor missile. (That’s for shooting other missiles out of the sky.) A new state-of-the-art facility wouldn’t be feasible in Tucson because of zoning, schedule and other needs that weren’t able to be met. They picked Huntsville, Ala., from a small list of cities. The facility may have its ground breaking fairly soon, and it will be a $ 75 million, 70,000 square foot building. That’s bound to have some quite high mortgage payments.
The laser like focus of Raytheon
Raytheon is able to use lasers as defensive weapons, succeeding where Ronald Reagan could not. The business has designed a laser defense system that can effortlessly shoot down an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and will likely soon tackle test aircraft. As outlined by CNET, a recent test on the California coast of the laser shot 4 out of 4 UAVs down. The beam causes the target to burst into flames and fall apart.
History of innovation
Raytheon has been on the cutting edge of engineering for a long time, besides their defense work. When the business was nevertheless the American Appliance Company, they invented a vacuum tube that could run a radio off of wall power, instead of a battery, before the invention of the transistor. (Some nevertheless insist vacuum tubes provide the best sound.) Raytheon also invented radar for naval vessels and also the microwave oven.
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