DefenceTalkDuring the U.S. Navy’s Combat Ship System Qualification Trials, the USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) tested two Raytheon Standard Missile-6 interceptors against anti-ship and cruise missile targets. As part of ‘engage on remote’ scenarios, the ship launched the SM-6 interceptors prior to its own radars ‘seeing’ the incoming threats, using targeting information from another Aegis ship […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-sm-6s-intercept-targets-in-engage-on-remote-tests-60868/

DefenceTalkThe QF-16 full scale aerial target’s inaugural unmanned flight occurred Sept. 19. The 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron and Boeing Co. conducted the flight, which is the first step in a two year process to phase out the QF-4 full scale aerial target. “The QF-4 did a good job for many years, but it’s time to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-unmanned-qf-16-flight-takes-place-49179/

DefenceTalkLess than three months after the last F-4 phantom II departed from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group for drone conversion, maintainers here are already turning the wrenches on Air Combat Command’s fourth generation of aerial targets, the F-16 Fighting Falcon. With AMARG’s entire F-16 regeneration team gathered to document the event on July […]https://www.defencetalk.com/f-16s-being-regenerated-into-drones-48504/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company’s (RTN) 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared (3rd Gen FLIR) Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS) and fire control successfully achieved proof of concept in a series of laboratory and field tests. Preliminary evaluation of the impact of firing all versions of the TOW missile was also performed. “Raytheon’s FLIR improvement program provides warfighters with […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-demos-high-definition-two-color-3rd-generation-flir-system-48492/

DefenceTalkRaytheon under a contract modification from the U.S. Army, is adding new capabilities to the Identification Friend or Foe interrogator to reduce Radio Frequency (RF) emissions and enhance target identification for the warfighter. “We understood that the warfighter needed an improved identification capability, so Raytheon is both increasing the capability of the interrogator system and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-to-improve-us-army-air-defenses-better-identify-targets-48138/