Lockheed Martin Selects Smiths Aerospace Actuation Systems for F-22.Business Editors YAKIMA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2002 Smiths Aerospace Actuation Systems has been selected by Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. to supply the Trapeze Actuator for the F-22 Raptor “F-22” redirects here. For other uses, see F-22 (disambiguation). The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation American fighter aircraft that utilizes fourth-generation stealth technology. . The contract is valued in excess of $10 million with production rates for 290 aircraft over the next 10 years. The system will be jointly designed at the Smiths Aerospace Actuation Systems facilities in Yakima, Washington
Yakima (IPA: [ˈjæ.kɪ. and Cheltenham, UK. Deliveries will begin in October 2002. The trapeze actuator, supplied at 2 per shipset, is a complex unit used to extend and retract TO RETRACT. To withdraw a proposition or offer before it has been accepted. 2. This the party making it has a right to do is long as it has not been accepted; for no principle of law or equity can, under these circumstances, require him to persevere in it. the AIM-9 Sidewinder The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. It is named after the Sidewinder snake, which detects its prey via body heat and also because of the peculiar snake-like path of flight the missile trapeze launcher located in the side weapons bay of the F-22 aircraft. Improved performance, sleeker, lighter weight design, and low cost are characteristics of the system. The F-22 Raptor is a new breed of super-fighter for the 21st century. As the world's first stealth air-to-air fighter, the F-22 will be unseen and deadly at long range and unmatched at close-in air-to-air combat. The F-22 will replace the U.S. Air Force's aging fleet of F-15 Eagle fighters. Smiths Aerospace is the leading transatlantic aerospace equipment company, with half its 12,000 staff and $2 billion revenues in North America. Smiths Aerospace, a part of Smiths Group plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :SMIN), holds key positions in the supply chains of all major military and civil aircraft and engine manufacturers and is a world-leader in electronic systems, actuation systems, precision components and detection & protection systems. |
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