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SM-6

HMAS Sydney fires Royal Australian Navy’s first Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) during Exercise Pacific Dragon 2024. Photo by Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman.
News Royal Australian Navy USA 

Royal Australian Navy fires first SM-6 missile

10/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3743 Views 0 Comments SM-6, Standard Missile 6

HMAS Sydney has conducted a successful firing of a Standard Missile 6, representing a step-change in the lethality, air and

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US Navy file photo –Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones launches a Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) during a live-fire test of the ship's aegis weapons system in 2014.
News Overseas Science & Technology USA 

SM-6 shatters [secret] engagement distance record

08/03/201610/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 7093 Views 0 Comments SM-6, Standard Missile

Before we get into today’s SM-6 press releases, I want to give Raytheon a slap up side the head for

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