House panel wants cheaper Patriot missile

Defense News: A House panel wants the Army to come up with a plan to get a cheaper missile for the Patriot air-and-missile defense system.

The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee is pushing in its mark-up of the fiscal year 2020 defense authorization bill — released June 3 — for the Army to bring options to Congress for a low-cost interceptor to be used in the Raytheon-made Patriot system. That is because the most updated variant is roughly $5 million a shot, and a cheaper missile would be attractive to foreign customers with Patriot systems.

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