Company / Counter-UAS
Raytheon
RTX business for missiles, air and missile defence, sensors and the Coyote counter-drone interceptor.
Arlington, United StatesCounter-UAS systems
About the company
About Raytheon
Raytheon is a business of RTX Corporation, which was formed in 2020 from the merger of Raytheon Company and United Technologies and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. RTX reported sales of more than 88 billion US dollars for 2025.
Raytheon develops integrated air and missile defence systems, smart weapons, missiles, advanced sensors and radars, interceptors and space-based systems for the US government and allied nations.
Against drones, Raytheon supplies the Coyote interceptor, which together with the KuRFS radar forms part of the US Army's LIDS counter-UAS system; in 2026 the company demonstrated a non-kinetic Coyote variant against drone swarms.
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