$156 Million to Upgrade Kuwait’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense Capabilities

Written on July 15, 2008 – 5:58 pm | by Frontier India Strategic and Defence |

Raytheon Company has received a $156 million Foreign Military Sales award from the U.S. Army to provide the State of Kuwait with Patriot Configuration-3 radar upgrade kits and related engineering and technical services.

The award for Kuwait Patriot upgrade kits follows recent company announcements of contracts totaling $269 million to provide South Korea command and control, communications, and maintenance support and training equipment for its Patriot air and missile defense system. The Kuwait Patriot Upgrade award includes upgrades and support consistent with the U.S. Army’s “Pure Fleet” initiative.

Work will be performed at Raytheon’s Integrated Air Defense Center, Andover, Mass.; the Warfighter Protection Center, Huntsville, Ala.; and the Mission Capability and Verification Center, White Sands, N.M.

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