Raytheon’s New Intelligence Aircraft Could Change the War Game
Despite the rapid arrival of smaller kinds of surveillance drones and new kinds of unmanned systems, there is still a pressing need for a new generation of innovations supporting advanced fixed-wing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Finding enemy armored convoys on the backside of a mountain beyond the line of sight, supporting ballistic missile defense operations, tracking enemy targets from the sky with optical, multi-spectral, and radio frequency sensors, and networking time-sensitive combat data across multiple domains in near real-time amid war . . . are all missions United States, UK, and NATO fixed-wing surveillance assets will increasingly be expected to perform.