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RTX Demos DeepStrike Autonomous Launcher For Army, Fires New Training Rocket Offering

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

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RTX Demos DeepStrike Autonomous Launcher For Army, Fires New Training Rocket Offering

Raytheon's DeepStrike autonomous launcher at the Army's Project Convergence Capstone 5 experiment. Photo: RTX

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon unveiled and demonstrated its new DeepStrike autonomous launcher at the Army’s Project Convergence Capstone 5 experiment, which included firing the company’s offering for a new training rocket. Brian Burton, Raytheon’s vice president of precision fires and maneuver, told Defense Daily the company has been developing the DeepStrike concept for just over a year as it looks to showcase a solution to offer an autonomous mobile platform capable of combining offensive and defensive fires, and that…

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