{"id":5678,"date":"2018-05-28T18:56:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T18:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:11:00","slug":"raytheon-awarded-contract-for-romanias-new-patriot-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/raytheon-awarded-contract-for-romanias-new-patriot-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon awarded contract for Romania&#8217;s new Patriot Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defense Department awards Raytheon a contract for ballistic radar tracking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army has awarded defense contractor Raytheon Company a $395.8 million contract for production of Romania&#8217;s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are using what we have learned in building 220 fire units and to meet Romania&#8217;s Patriot fielding schedule,&#8221; said Tom Laliberty, vice president of Integrated Air and Missile Defense at Raytheon&#8217;s Integrated Defense Systems business.<\/p>\n<p>Raytheon has already ordered thousands of critical long-lead items from hundreds of suppliers, and begun production of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critical electronic components<\/li>\n<li>Machined parts<\/li>\n<li>Circuit card assemblies and cables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The estimated completion time is April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Patriot defense system is known as the essence\u00a0of NATO and Europe&#8217;s defense against ballistic and cruise missiles, advanced aircraft and drones.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raytheon.com\/capabilities\/products\/patriot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raytheon&#8217;s Patriot<\/a><\/span> is a missile defense system consisting of radars, command-and-control technology and multiple types of interceptors, all working together to detect, identify and defeat tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, advanced aircraft and other threats.<\/p>\n<p>Patriot is the foundation of integrated air and missile defense for 15 countries including US, Netherlands,\u00a0Germany, Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia,\u00a0Kuwait, Taiwan, Greece,\u00a0Spain,\u00a0Republic of Korea,\u00a0United Arab Emirates, Qatar,\u00a0Romania and Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Department awards Raytheon a contract for ballistic radar tracking. U.S. Army has awarded defense contractor Raytheon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[6,357,31,52,113,235],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-defense","tag-europe","tag-missile","tag-romania","tag-security","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/patriot-missile-e1601988881218.jpg?fit=480%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1tA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}