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Raytheon’s New AESA Radar Now Available For F-16 Customers

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

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By B.C. Kessner The Raytheon [RTN] Advanced Combat Radar (RACR), the latest Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, successfully completed flight tests aboard an Air Force F-16 aircraft and is now available as an option for domestic and international customers, the company said yesterday. "I'd say we're in production today," Ken Murphy, F-16 RACR senior business development manager at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, told Defense Daily yesterday. The RACR team spent about two years to develop and optimize the…

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