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F-35 gives pilots intuitive access to reams and tactical advantages pilots and air can integrate with both U.S. and foreign
of flight, tactical, and sensor information crews need to stay ahead of ground and weapons.
providing advanced situational awareness, airborne threats.
precision and safety. The helmet brings in The indigenous South Korea defence indus-
data from Raytheon’s next-generation F-35 One of our newest products is a low SWAP try has grown at a fast pace in recent years.
Distributed Aperture System, or DAS, which - Air Cooled AESA radar – PhantomStrike Is Raytheon open to partnerships, including
collects and sends real-time, high-res- – is a GaN-powered array designed for joint ventures, with South Korean defence
olution imagery to the helmet from six SWaP-constrained air platforms, includ- companies?
infrared cameras mounted around the ing UAVs, rotary wing, light attack and
aircraft. Raytheon enables fighter pilots adversary aircraft. The total system is
to dominate the airspace and complete exceptionally light— weighing less than Though APS is a relatively new business,
direct attack, standoff and strike mis- 150 pounds. About half the weight of RTX’s partnership in Korea spans more
sions with precision. Weapons for the F-35 modern fire control AESA radars. than six decades. And our commitment
include the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, to the Republic of Korea and our partners
AMRAAM missile, JSM missile, wJSOW there is as resolute as ever.
weapon, and StormBreaker smart weap- When you’re in the cockpit—time is of the
on. Pilots can aim these weapons through essence. We have a suite of Electronic
our helmet. Warfare products, including our Radar Thanks to that longstanding relationship,
Warning Receiver – ALR-69, which gives we’ve been able to pursue several major
pilots more time by giving them advanced collaborations in Korea, including partner-
And that F-35 example is just one small situational awareness to see the threat ships with Hanwha, KAI, Korean Air, and
insight into the power of one RTX. before it sees them. LIGNex1 on various solutions in-country
and for export. We understand Korea’s
Advanced Products & Solutions is one of And the last one I’ll mention is the Raytheon emphasis on the export market – as wit-
the new businesses established under the Distributed Aperture System, or RDAS, nessed by our PhantomStrike partnership
new RTX business which includes many Air which gives pilots 360-degree spherical with KAI on their FA-50 export to Poland
Dominance products. What else can you tell situational awareness. It gives pilots eyes – and given our many decades long expe-
me about the portfolio and the business’ to see in the dark without night vision rience in exporting around the globe, we
mission? goggles. It also offers passive missile can be a great partner in helping Korean
detection, autonomous threat tracking companies not only build critical systems
Advanced Products & Solutions, or APS, and obstacle avoidance. for the defence of Korea, but for export
is one of eight strategic businesses within to global markets.
Raytheon. Our business is unique; we’re RTX is upgrading Korea Aerospace Industries’
known as the mission equipment supplier FA-50 aircraft with the PhantomStrike radar. LIGNex1 is a premier provider of Electronic
with the mission to be the premier suppli- What is the timeline for the upgrades? Warfare systems in Korea. Raytheon has
er of advanced aerospace and defence an extremely advanced and mature EW
products to aircraft OEMs, the U.S. gov- group. We signed an MOU with LIGNex1
ernment and ally nations. Our portfolio is Yes, we’re under contract with Korea to identify areas of collaboration and are
expansive – spanning EO/IR, agile radars, Aerospace Industries to deliver the excited to work with them as a partner. We
space, imaging and microelectronics and PhantomStrike radar for their FA-50 air- look forward to collaborating with local in-
many classified programmes. craft for Poland. We are expecting to make
those deliveries in 2025. dustry to bring critical technologies to the
warfighter and ensure mission success.
We have a storied legacy in radars. We led
the radar revolution for nearly 40 years. We The sale to KAI bolsters the Republic of
were the first to field an AESA radar and Korea’s defence industry as PhantomStrike How important is South Korea and the Asia
today our active electronically scanned fire control ASEA will support KAI’s goal of Pacific region for the military side of RTX’s
array (AESA) radars are the cornerstone selling aircraft worldwide to a variety of business?
of current and future military aircraft -- end-users with a state of the technology
providing the exceptional performance air-cooled, affordable radar. The APAC region is critical to our busi-
ness. Our commitment and partnership
Equally important is the fact our in Korea stretch back 60 years. The region
PhantomStrike radar will help enhance is a key growth market for APS and RTX.
ROK’s allies’ air defence capabilities
providing exceptional performance and
tactical advantages that pilots and air We have and continue to support major
crews need to stay ahead of ground and programmes in maritime, Intelligence
airborne threats. With digital beam form- Surveillance and Reconnaissance and
ing and steering, multimode functionality air & missile defence domains such as
and interleaved ground and air targeting, Patriot, SM-2, RAM, Phalanx, AMRAAM
PhantomStrike will give KAI’s customers and AIM-9X to South Korea and U.S. forc-
superior radar capability at nearly half the es in-country. We will continue that legacy
cost of typical fire control radars. It also of collaboration and support, to help meet
has a mode weapons data link and we the needs of our APAC partners.

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