EL SEGUNDO, Calif.,
Nov. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), in collaboration with the
U.S. Navy, successfully demonstrated an end to end, first of its
kind, integrated electronic attack system during flight tests at
the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in October.
"Eight months after award of the NGJ program we successfully
flew the integrated prototype system against representative threat
radars," said Travis Slocumb, vice
president of Electronic Warfare Systems at Raytheon's Space and
Airborne Systems business. "This demonstrates the capability
and readiness of the core enabling technologies for the next
generation of EW systems, and we did it on our first flight."
The advanced, first of its kind system consisted of an active
electronically scanned array (AESA), an all-digital, open, scalable
receiver and techniques generator and a self-powered pod mounted on
the underside of a Gulfstream business jet. The high power
AESA front end and multichannel techniques generator are common
building blocks not just for the U.S. Navy's Next Generation
Jammer, but also for other airborne, maritime and ground-based EW
systems.
A team of engineering and technical personnel collected and
evaluated test data confirming the successful jamming and
disruption of air defense radars, which were representative of
enemy threat radars. The combination of jamming techniques, beam
agility, array-transmit power and jammer management were very
effective against the threat systems and all test objectives were
met or exceeded.
A primary goal of the flight test activity, based at Naval Air
Station Point Mugu, was to reduce risk in the engineering,
manufacturing and development (EMD) phase of the Next Generation
Jammer acquisition by the U.S. Navy. While all the elements had
been previously tested in a lab setting, this was the first time
the end-to-end system had been powered by the air stream.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2013 sales of $24
billion and 63,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and
innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning
92 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 cyber security and a broad range of mission
support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit
us at www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter @Raytheon.
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