Raytheon Missiles & Defense
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Predecessor | Hughes Missile Systems Co. and Raytheon Missile Systems Division (via merger) |
| Defunct | July 1, 2023 |
| Successor | Raytheon |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Wes Kremer, President |
Number of employees | 30,000 (2020) |
| Parent | RTX Corporation |
| Website | www |
Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) was one of four business segments of RTX Corporation. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, its president was Wes Kremer.[1] The business produced a broad portfolio of advanced technologies, including air and missile defense systems, precision weapons, radars, and command and control systems.[2] Raytheon Intelligence & Space was merged with Raytheon Missiles & Defense in July 2023 to form the Raytheon business segment.[3]
History
[edit]The business was a combination of two Raytheon Company legacy businesses, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) and Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS), which operated a plant formerly owned by the Hughes Aircraft Company.[citation needed]
Raytheon was praised by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for its Patriot missile defense system. "There is no [other] such system in the world today that can fight any missile — ranging from conventional to ballistic ones — any strike by the Russian Federation," Zelenskyy said.[4]
Products
[edit]Key Raytheon Missiles & Defense capabilities combined key IDS and RMS capabilities. Key IDS capabilities include:
- Ground-based and sea-based radars for air and missile defense
- Navy radar and sonar
- Torpedoes and naval mine countermeasures
Key RMS capabilities include:
- Missiles and precision-guided munitions
- Drones and air-launched decoys
- Counter-drone and non-lethal directed energy weapons
- Ground vehicle sensors and weapons
- Ground based operational surveillance system
The division's products included:
- Active Denial System non-lethal millimeter wave weapon
- AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile
- AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missile
- AGM-129 ACM air-to-surface missile
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon air-to-surface glide bomb
- AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile
- AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile
- RIM-7 Sea Sparrow naval surface-to-air missile
- AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile
- AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile
- AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile
- AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for Navy ships
- AN/TPY-2 radar for the THAAD missile defense system
- AN/AQS20C Mine hunting sonar suite
- AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS)
- BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile
- BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile
- Coyote unmanned aerial system
- David's Sling Medium to long range surface-to-air/anti-ballistic missile (partner with prime contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)
- Extended Range Guided Munition[5]
- Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle anti-ICBM system
- FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile
- FIM-92 Stinger person-portable air defense system surface-to-air missile
- M982 Excalibur guided artillery round
- MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile
- MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
- Paveway laser-guided bomb
- Phalanx CIWS naval anti-missile defense system
- RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile naval surface-to-air missile
- RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile naval surface-to-air missile
- Standard Missile family of naval missiles
- SAM-N-2 Lark
References
[edit]- ^ Raytheon Missiles & Defense. "Raytheon Missiles & Defense Website".
- ^ "Raytheon Technologies Business Overview".
- ^ Moore-Carrillo, Jaime (June 20, 2023). "Raytheon rebrands as RTX". DefenseNews.com. Defense News. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
- ^ "Zelenskyy says he owes a 'big shoutout' to the makers of the Patriot, which Ukraine says has been killing Russia's supposedly unbeatable missiles". Business Insider. 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ "Raytheon Company: Products & Services: ERGM". www.raytheon.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- Leighton, David (2015). The History of the Hughes Missile Plant in Tucson, 1947–1960. David Leighton. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
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