Under terms of a $4.5 million contract announced from the Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Arizona, electronics contract manufacturer LaBarge (St. Louis) will continue to provide rugged complex wiring harnesses for the Raytheon Tactical Tomahawk ship- and submarine-launched cruise missiles. LaBarge will produce the cable harnesses for Tomahawk in the company's factories in Berryville, Ark., and Joplin, Mo., starting in May, and should be finished by July 2012.
Tactical Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile designed to attack land targets and large, hardened ships at sea. The jet engine-powered smart missile can carry a variety of explosive warheads, guidance systems, and other capabilities. The missile has had a particularly high profile in the news lately, as U.S. forces launched 112 of these smart satellite-guided munitions worth as much as $168 million at Libya on the first day of military operations against that North African country on March 19. Those expended cruise missiles will need to be replaced in the U.S. weapons inventory.
Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics
