As current and emerging threats continue to proliferate, Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) remains a crucial need for armed forces worldwide. Adversaries have demonstrated the ability to synchronize complex attacks with a diverse set of threats, including drones, cruise missiles, fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and ballistic missiles – so our customers need a range of advanced capabilities that deter aggression and when called upon, defeat adversarial threats.
The optimal solution is a “layered defense:” a federation of air defense systems of differing ranges and characteristics, integrated and interoperable to defend against a broad range of threats with optimum efficiency and effectiveness.
Raytheon is the industry leader in complete IAMD system solutions such as the NASAMS and Patriot air and missile defense systems that dozens of countries rely upon. We provide these combat-proven systems and continually improve them with upgrades including the latest sensors, effectors, and novel integration approaches to increase the effectiveness across layered air defense capabilities.
A great example of this is the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS). LTAMDS provides 360-degree threat detection and tracking, with significant range and sensitivity improvements, to counter the most advanced threats. LTAMDS is a networked sensor designed for the lower-tier mission to operate as a sensor in the U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) and is also available as an upgrade to the Patriot system.
Demand for air defense capability is currently high and the pace will continue well into the future. Ukraine is now using the Patriot system and Switzerland is under contract for its Patriot fire units, representing the 18th and 19th countries to acquire the Patriot air and missile defense system. Patriot, is the centerpiece of European Sky Shield, a NATO initiative providing commonality of systems with exceptional benefits – from interoperability and complementary defensive strength and capabilities to the flexibility of interchangeable components such as missiles, launchers and radars. Efficiencies are gained from sharing common logistics, training, maintenance, and spares.
NASAMS provides exceptional medium range air defense capability, used by 13 countries, including Norway, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Hungary, and Ukraine. NASAMS capability is being proven daily in Ukraine and its broad adoption across Europe offers the same operational and efficiency benefits of interchangeable components spanning these allied countries.
Raytheon has developed, and continues to advance, a portfolio of sensors, command and control systems, and effectors designed to detect and defeat complex threats across the battlespace, from short and medium range to lower and upper tier, leveraging decades of expertise in developing all elements of a sophisticated IAMD architecture. From advanced sensors and combat-proven effectors to complete IAMD system solutions, and the Air Defense Operations Center, or ADOC, an integration solution that enables air defense forces to effectively manage sensors, ensuring full coverage of defended assets and effective and efficient use of kinetic and non-kinetic interceptors.
And as threats advance, so do Raytheon’s solutions – refreshing existing capabilities and tackling new challenges with new technologies because the U.S. and its allies need to be able to out-maneuver, out-think and overpower future threats.
For more than 100 years, Raytheon has brought together the best minds, systems and capabilities to create mission critical solutions that are smarter, faster and better than previously thought possible. That is our mission – to help peace loving countries defend freedoms and deter aggression – and we are steadfast in our commitment to our customers around the globe.