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Raytheon Wins Contract to Provide New AESA Radars to B-52 Aircraft

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, July 11th, 2019

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Raytheon Wins Contract to Provide New AESA Radars to B-52 Aircraft

The Air Force's B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber

Raytheon [RTN] has been selected to provide the new radar for the Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress bomber, the company said July 11. The company will be contracted for a pre-Engineering, Manufacturing and Design phase to design and build a new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and replace the B-52's current APQ-166 terrain-following and mapping radars, built by Northrop Grumman [NOC]. The winning radar design is based on AESA technologies from its APG-79/APG-82 radar family. Low-rate initial production is scheduled…

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