YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz., Sept. 30, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company's (NYSE: RTN) KillerBee unmanned aircraft system demonstrated its
interoperability, integration and functionality as an end-to-end UAS combat
system.
During the demonstration, a Raytheon flight operations crew simulated a
combat environment by delivering the KillerBee system to a remote location
via Humvees. In less than 45 minutes, the crew set up the system and
launched the UAS. The team then executed the operational scenario and
safely retrieved the UAS with a unique net-recovery system.
The KillerBee is designed to provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine
Corps with a UAS for their respective Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft
Systems and Tier II missions. A mini-common data link enables KillerBee
interoperability with both U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance systems.
"The KillerBee is at a point where we can demonstrate an integrated
combat capability," said Ken Pedersen, Raytheon Missile Systems' vice
president of Advanced Programs. "Combined with Raytheon's Universal Control
System, a first-of-its-kind unmanned aircraft flight station, the KillerBee
can reliably insert ISR into the battlespace and then quickly deliver
actionable data to a combatant commander."
Raytheon Company, with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 86
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems
integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.
Note to Editors:
The mission was conducted using U.S. Marine Corps combat operations
center hardware, and an operator controlled the KillerBee with a variant of
Raytheon's Universal Control System. The KillerBee system received target
input from a Javelin Command Launch Unit and an Improved Target Acquisition
System from Raytheon's TOW (Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided)
missile.
The KillerBee electro-optical/infrared sensor was cued to the targets,
prior to providing target confirmation back to the CLU and ITAS. The system
then selected a target and cued the Javelin CLU operator through a Command
and Control Personal Computer.
Contact:
John Nelson
520.794.7810 - office
520.664.8560 - mobile
John_H_Nelson@raytheon.com
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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