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Cryptically so. Lt. General Thurgood reference how with the SM-6 they are getting a missile both capable of offensive and defensive fires, while VADM Hill at the same event Space and Missile defense event also said that SM-6 is easier to launch off of land compared to the SM-3 that is tightly coupled with the SPY-1/6 S band radars. With IFCN and JADC2, you now have a way to target at longer ranges that you really didn't earlier and the Army can pick up this capability for not a lot of money relatively to developing a completely new interceptor and then integrating it in an existing launcher. This allows the future LT interceptor to focus on the ballistic and hypersonic threat and leave the rest to existing inventory missiles.

[QUOTE="bring_it_on, post: 481521, member: 10064"] Cryptically so. Lt. General Thurgood reference how with the SM-6 they are getting a missile both capable of offensive and defensive fires, while VADM Hill at the same event Space and Missile defense event also said that SM-6 is easier to launch off of land compared to the SM-3 that is tightly coupled with the SPY-1/6 S band radars. With IFCN and JADC2, you now have a way to target at longer ranges that you really didn't earlier and the Army can pick up this capability for not a lot of money relatively to developing a completely new interceptor and then integrating it in an existing launcher. This allows the future LT interceptor to focus on the ballistic and hypersonic threat and leave the rest to existing inventory missiles. [/QUOTE]

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