Raytheon Awarded $5 Billion for Coyote Missile System

Raytheon Co. was awarded $5 billion contract for the Coyote Missile System – Fixed, Mobile Coyote Missile Launchers, Kinetic and Non-Kinetic Interceptors, and Ku-band radio frequency system radars.

The amount of this action is $5,039,629,681, a Pentagaon contract announcement said today.

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Coyote Missile System – Fixed, Mobile Coyote Missile Launchers, Kinetic and Non-Kinetic Interceptors, and Ku-band radio frequency system radars.

The amount of this action is $5,039,629,681. The Coyote effector is a low-cost, rail-launched missile variant with a boost rocket motor and a turbine engine for high-speed counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) and launched effects (LE) missions.

Drone Defense

Small and expendable, Coyote C-UAS kinetic and non-kinetic variants are able to defeat small to large target unmanned aircraft systems at longer ranges and higher altitudes than similar class effectors. Raytheon’s Coyote C-UAS can defeat single drone threats as well as swarms, supported by reduced engagement timelines to defeat multiple targets.

Paired with Raytheon’s Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor, or KuRFS radar, the systems provide essential detect and defeat capabilities in the defense against UASs. These proven capabilities are crucial components of the U.S. Army’s currently deployed C-UAS solution, LIDS - the Low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System.