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Texas Instruments and Sperry Rand identifies the U.S. industrial production team associated with early AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile manufacture. Public museum and missile-reference sources describe the Shrike as a Naval Weapons Center design that entered production at Texas Instruments and Sperry Rand/UNIVAC in the early 1960s, linking semiconductor-era guidance electronics, defense electronics manufacturing, and UNIVAC-era aerospace computing capacity to one of the first U.S. radar-homing air-to-surface weapons.
1 weaponsThe attribution is historical rather than a current joint company. Texas Instruments was a Dallas-based high-technology and defense-electronics manufacturer whose 1996 filing described broad commercial-electronics work and a pending sale of its defense systems and electronics business to Raytheon. The Department of Justice later described that Texas Instruments unit as a producer of guided missiles, electro-optical systems, and defense electronics equipment.
Sperry Rand/UNIVAC brought a separate U.S. electronics lineage. Unisys traces Sperry Rand to the 1955 merger of Sperry and Remington Rand, followed by commercial and military computer products, inertial-navigation work, and the 1986 Sperry-Burroughs merger that formed Unisys. In the Shrike record, Sperry Rand/UNIVAC appears as a co-production organization beside Texas Instruments rather than as a modern operating brand.
The primary catalog connection: Smithsonian and Designation-Systems sources identify Texas Instruments and Sperry Rand/UNIVAC with early Shrike production after Naval Weapons Center development.
Sources: Caps, Missile, Training, Air-to-Ground, Anti-Radiation, ATM-45A-1 Shrike | National Air and Space Museum, Texas Instruments ASM-N-10/AGM-45 Shrike
Texas Instruments' laser-guidance work developed from the same guidance-electronics environment: USAF museum material says BOLT-117 used guidance and control elements adapted from Shrike, and missile-reference material traces early Paveway guidance contracts to Texas Instruments.
Sources: Texas Instruments BOLT-117 Laser Guided Bomb | National Museum of the United States Air Force, Texas Instruments Paveway I & Pave StormSperry and Remington Rand merged to form Sperry Rand, a corporate line that Unisys associates with commercial and military computer products during the following decade.
Sources: Unisys History
Naval Weapons Center began work on the ASM-N-10/AGM-45 Shrike by combining a new anti-radiation seeker with a modified AIM-7 Sparrow III airframe.
Sources: Caps, Missile, Training, Air-to-Ground, Anti-Radiation, ATM-45A-1 Shrike | National Air and Space Museum, Texas Instruments ASM-N-10/AGM-45 Shrike
After the ASM-N-10 became AGM-45A in June 1963, large-scale initial production for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy began at Texas Instruments and Sperry Rand/UNIVAC.
Sources: Texas Instruments ASM-N-10/AGM-45 Shrike
The USAF museum describes the Texas Instruments BOLT-117 as the world's first laser-guided bomb, with guidance and control fins adapted from the AGM-45 Shrike missile.
Sources: Texas Instruments BOLT-117 Laser Guided Bomb | National Museum of the United States Air Force
Sperry and Burroughs merged to form Unisys Corporation, carrying the Sperry/UNIVAC corporate line into a successor information-technology company.
Sources: Unisys History
Texas Instruments reported a definitive agreement for Raytheon to buy its defense systems and electronics business, and the Department of Justice later allowed the acquisition with a divestiture remedy for a radar-component unit.
Sources: Texas Instruments 1996 Form 10-K, Justice Department Requires Raytheon and Texas Instruments to Divest Key Unit Before Approval of Their $2.9 Billion Merger
This is a historical U.S. production attribution for sources that name Texas Instruments and Sperry Rand/UNIVAC together on AGM-45 Shrike production. Texas Instruments' defense business later moved to Raytheon, while Sperry/UNIVAC's corporate line became part of Unisys after the 1986 Sperry-Burroughs merger.
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Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.
