A PAC-3 MSE launches July 1, 2024. (Photo courtesy of US Army).
FARNBOROUGH — RTX subsidiary Raytheon is studying how to proceed after President Donald Trump announced that the US would grant a license for building the firm’s high-demand Patriot interceptors in Ukraine, a top executive said Monday, while cautioning that talks are still early.
“That process has just started,” Tom Laliberty, Raytheon’s president of land and air defense systems, told reporters during a briefing at the Farnborough Airshow here on the outskirts of London. “And we’ll of course be following the United States government’s lead” on licensing, he added.
Missiles for the Patriot system — which itself consists of an RTX radar and other subsystems, as well as interceptors built by both RTX and Lockheed Martin — contain several lines of effort, Laliberty explained.
“There’s different levels of engagement of our supply chain,” he said, pointing to RTX partners worldwide that produce components, operate maintenance facilities and, in some cases, produce fully-assembled missiles.
