Raytheon

Raytheon is the government-facing defence business of RTX Corporation, tracing its history to the Raytheon Company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1922 as the American Appliance Company. Raytheon became one of the world's largest electron-tube makers before the Second World War and mass-produced magnetron tubes and radar systems during it. Raytheon Company merged with United Technologies in April 2020 to form Raytheon Technologies, which was renamed RTX in July 2023; the Raytheon segment today combines the former Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense units with Collins Aerospace's ISR business. RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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Raytheon's defence portfolio spans guided missiles, air-defence and radar systems, and electronic warfare, alongside its unmanned-systems work. Its small unmanned aircraft lineage began with the Coyote, originally developed by Advanced Ceramics Research and acquired through subsidiaries, which Raytheon has since expanded from an intelligence-gathering airframe into a family of counter-UAS interceptors paired with its Ku-band radio frequency sensor (KuRFS) and used in the US Army's Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (LIDS).

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The Coyote is Raytheon's small, tube-launched unmanned aircraft, originally built for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and hurricane research and now fielded chiefly as a family of counter-UAS interceptors.