DefenceTalkRaytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has completed the manufacturing of an Antenna Equipment Unit for the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar. An integral part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), the AN/TPY-2 searches, discriminates between threats and non-threats, acquires and tracks threat ballistic missiles. AN/TPY-2 is a mobile X-band radar that helps protect the U.S., […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-completes-critical-component-of-ninth-antpy-2-ballistic-missile-defense-radar-49194/

DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test today of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, resulting in the intercept of a complex separating short-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean by the Aegis BMD 4.0 Weapon […]https://www.defencetalk.com/aegis-missile-defense-system-completes-successful-intercept-flight-test-49113/

DefenceTalkRaytheon and Falck Schmidt Defence Systems are debuting a remotely operated, mast-mounted, long-range reconnaissance and surveillance (LRRS) forward looking infrared (FLIR) system. The new system, displayed at the DSEI trade show, provides greater situational awareness while enhancing soldier safety by allowing the operator to stay under cover. “Raytheon’s FLIR sensor allows warfighters to detect targets […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-remotely-operated-long-range-surveillance-system-49066/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $136.2 million contract for federal FY13 to re-manufacture, overhaul and upgrade 19 Phalanx Close-in Weapon Systems and produce four SeaRAM Anti-ship Missile Defense Systems. This contract includes a $94.8 million option for FY14 covering an additional 12 Phalanx and four SeaRAM systems. The option, if exercised, would bring the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-awarded-phalanx-upgrade-contract-49064/

DefenceTalkRaytheon is moving forward with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on the agency’s Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program, whose software could enable ground troops to receive close air support sooner by improving coordination among joint terminal attack controllers, airborne sensors and weapons. Originally designed for the A-10 Thunderbolt, the recently expanded PCAS program […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-moves-forward-on-darpa-persistent-close-air-support-program-49042/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company’s Stinger demonstrated flawless performance in recent Very Short Range Air Defense System (SHORADS) field trials in Finland. During the trials, six Finnish gunners were trained on three missile system tracking trainers. Using the trainer, each Finnish gunner successfully simulated tracking and engaging targets flown by the Finnish Army Materiel Command, including an F/A-18, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-stinger-trainer-demonstrates-accuracy-in-finland-vshorads-field-trials-48994/

DefenceTalkRaytheon’s new-production Patriot Air and Missile Defense System successfully launched a PAC-3 missile to engage a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. This test was the culmination of two years of testing of the complete system, proving system performance in all environments and against all threats. “Patriot’s flawless performance […]https://www.defencetalk.com/modernized-patriot-system-aces-pac-3-test-48781/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy completed the first fleet firing of Raytheon’s Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 as part of its ongoing developmental and operational testing (DT/OT). In an at-sea test conducted from the USS Arlington (LPD 24), two RAM Block 2 missiles engaged a subsonic target in a scenario designed to demonstrate the advanced missile’s defensive […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rolling-airframe-missile-block-2-completes-initial-fleet-firing-48701/

DefenceTalkUTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah — The U.S. Army completed Early User Testing (EUT) of the Raytheon Company-developed JLENS. During the six-week-long EUT, soldiers tested JLENS’ ability to operate in a number of complex scenarios that replicated an operational environment. The soldiers also tested JLENS’ endurance by operating the system continually for 20 days. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-soldiers-test-jlens-in-real-world-scenarios-48580/

DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency will soon have available a deployment-ready AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar to help counter the more than 6,300 ballistic missiles outside of U.S., NATO, Russian and Chinese control. Raytheon has delivered a cooling equipment unit (CEU) — a crucial component of the AN/TPY-2 radar — more than 14 months early, supporting […]https://www.defencetalk.com/early-hardware-delivery-enables-deployment-of-crucial-missile-defense-radar-48517/