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Raytheon KillerBee Demonstrates Capabilities in Simulated Combat Environment

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September 30, 2008

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YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz., Sept. 30, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon
Company’s (NYSE: RTN) KillerBee unmanned aircraft system demonstrated its
interoperability, integration and functionality as an end-to-end UAS combat
system.

During the demonstration, a Raytheon flight operations crew simulated a
combat environment by delivering the KillerBee system to a remote location
via Humvees. In less than 45 minutes, the crew set up the system and
launched the UAS. The team then executed the operational scenario and
safely retrieved the UAS with a unique net-recovery system.

The KillerBee is designed to provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine
Corps with a UAS for their respective Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft
Systems and Tier II missions. A mini-common data link enables KillerBee
interoperability with both U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

“The KillerBee is at a point where we can demonstrate an integrated
combat capability,” said Ken Pedersen, Raytheon Missile Systems’ vice
president of Advanced Programs. “Combined with Raytheon’s Universal Control
System, a first-of-its-kind unmanned aircraft flight station, the KillerBee
can reliably insert ISR into the battlespace and then quickly deliver
actionable data to a combatant commander.”

Raytheon Company, with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 86
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 a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.

SOURCE Raytheon Company

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