Raytheon has been given the contract to ready the AV Switchblade airframe to be launched from submarine waste disposal units. Now I bet that was not part of the first design brief! Chuck it out let it float up and then launch. How will it communicate with the sub if its at any depth though and how quickly will any aircraft looking for...
Raytheon completes first captive flight test of Small Tactical Munition Phase II. Paving the way for one target one air dropped weapon missions! TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 30, 2011 Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has completed captive carry tests of its Small Tactical Munition Phase II configuration, paving the way for flight tests. “Raytheon developed STM Phase II to provide the warfighter a...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2011 – The Raytheon Company is seeking to integrate its Small Tactical Munition onto a wide variety of light-attack aircraft. STM is a new 12-pound, 22-inch-long, precision-guided, gravity-dropped weapon. Although initially designed for employment from unmanned aircraft systems, STM’s small size makes it uniquely applicable to manned systems as well. STM is the smallest air-launched weapon in Raytheon’s...
TEWKBURY, Mass. | Raytheon Company’s aerostat system — Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) — recently completed a successful 14-day endurance test at a range in Utah demonstrating its readiness. “Providing persistent surveillance for cruise missile defense is a very important capability of JLENS,” said David Gulla, vice president for Global Integrated Sensors at Raytheon Integrated...
Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems is developing a sort of operating system for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to allow rapid adaptation of new features such as weapons and sensors. Raytheon’s Service-Oriented Architecture, or SOA – which the company highlighted during a recent UAS trade show – is roughly analogous to a computer operating system. The SOA system would be compatible...
Raytheon has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology to soldiers and unmanned aircraft to help prevent fratricide. This effort builds upon an existing Raytheon antenna design and additional enhancements performed in concert with the U.S. Army CERDEC Intelligence & Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD). The new miniature antenna is approximately the...
Raytheon has won a $24.7 million Global Hawk Ground Station sustainment Contract. Raytheon Company said in a statement that it has been awarded a one-year subcontract worth$24.7 million for support services of the ground station elements of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system. David Wilson, Defense and Civil Mission Solutions director Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems...
Raytheon have tested a new warhead for its Small Tactical Munition, a new weapon specifically designed to be employed from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). STM is a 13-pound guided munition that is approximately 2 feet long, making it the smallest air-launched weapon in the Raytheon portfolio. The new 5-pound warhead, manufactured by NammoTalley, is lighter than the current warhead...
TEWKSBURY, Mass., April 7, 2011 Raytheon Company’s SLAMRAAM (Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile) system successfully destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle target and intercepted a cruise missile target at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The limited user test-firing data will be used to validate key system capabilities and potential enhancements in addition to providing operational assessment. “Successful completion...
Raytheon Solipsys, a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) subsidiary, was awarded a $9 million contract to deliver and install its Zeus situational awareness and collaboration system for Air Force remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). The award responds to an urgent operational need requested by the Air Force. Zeus will be installed at 18 Air Combat Command, Air National Guard and Air...
