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Raytheon Tests Active Protection System, Says Shows Maturity

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

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Raytheon [RTN] is ready for formal government testing in March of its Quick Kill Active Protection System (APS) following the success of its own tests that a company official said shows the system’s maturity and accuracy. “Raytheon’s APS is based on the same radar technology deployed to perform sense and warn operations at active Forward Operating Bases,” Jeff Miller, vice president of Combat and Sensing Systems for Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business, told Defense Daily. “It has been extremely successful…

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