RTX Company Profile

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Company Name

RTX

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Website

www.rtx.com

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Established Date

1922

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Headquartered

United States

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Market Position/ History

RTX Corporation traces its origins to 1922 and has grown into a major global aerospace and defense technology company. Its modern structure was established in 2020 through the merger of Raytheon Company and the aerospace businesses of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Before the merger, UTC spun off its Otis Elevator and Carrier businesses, allowing its remaining aerospace operations to combine with Raytheon. The newly formed company was initially named Raytheon Technologies Corporation and was headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Following the merger, RTX expanded its capabilities across aircraft engines, avionics, aerostructures, guided missiles, air defense systems, cybersecurity, satellites, and drones, serving both commercial aerospace and defense customers. In July 2023, the company was renamed RTX Corporation and later established its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Today, RTX is one of the world's leading aerospace and defense manufacturers, with a significant portion of its business supported by the U.S. government.

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Sales Area

Worldwide

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Manufacturing Location

Arlington, Virginia, United States.

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Ticker

NYSE: RTX

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Competitors

• Electro Optic Systems
• Elbit Systems Ltd.
• Saab AB
• Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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CEO

Christopher T. Calio

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Ownership Type

Public Company

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Contact Information

1000 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22209, USA

Tel: (781) 522-3000

Product

Product Description

SeaRAM Ship Defense System

The SeaRAM Ship Defense System is an advanced, autonomous close-in weapon system (CIWS) designed to protect naval vessels against a wide array of high-speed threats. Modeled after the combat-proven Phalanx weapon system, SeaRAM replaces the traditional 20 mm Gatling gun with an 11-missile launcher.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Threat Neutralization: Defends against both supersonic and subsonic threats, including cruise missiles, unmanned aerial drones, and helicopters.
• Firepower: Features an innovative launcher capable of firing up to 11 RAM™ (Rolling Airframe Missile) missiles.
• Advanced Sensors: Combines the high-resolution search-and-track capabilities and quick-response reliability of the Phalanx Block 1B system.
• Missile Agility: Incorporates the extended range, superior accuracy, and high agility inherent to the RAM guided missile.
• Seamless Integration: Built as an affordable above-deck upgrade that directly fits the existing footprint of a standard Phalanx system, requiring the same power supply and minimal shipboard modification.

AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel Radar

The AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel is a mobile, three-dimensional radar system built to safeguard front-line forces. It provides critical air surveillance and fire-control data to alert short-range air-defense weapons against hostile airborne threats, including aircraft, drones, and missiles.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Three-Dimensional Coverage: Accurately tracks and reports the range, bearing, and elevation of targeted objects.
• Comprehensive Threat Detection: Automatically detects hostile planes, helicopters, unmanned aerial systems (drones), and cruise missiles.
• Command and Control (C2) Integration: Supports multiple C2 interfaces to deliver consistent surveillance and fire-control data to counter-UAS and air-defense weapons.
• High Mobility & Flexibility: Engineered for operational versatility, functioning seamlessly at fixed static sites as well as during highly mobile maneuver operations.
• Global Deployment: Trusted and actively deployed worldwide with over 300 units in service by the U.S. Army and allied armed forces.

Global Patriot Air and Missile Defense System

The Global Patriot system is a premier, combat-proven air and missile defense architecture comprising advanced radars, command-and-control technology, and a variety of interceptors. Designed to detect, identify, and defeat a comprehensive spectrum of threats—including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, and advanced aircraft—Patriot serves as the backbone of integrated defense for 19 allied nations.

Core Capabilities & Architecture

• Comprehensive Threat Neutralization: Defends against the full spectrum of modern airborne hazards, ranging from unmanned aircraft and cruise missiles to advanced tactical ballistic missiles.
• Integrated System Components: Combines high-performance radars, advanced command-and-control technology, and multiple specialized interceptor types (such as the Guidance Enhanced Missile family).
• Flexible & Modernized Design: Features an adaptable architecture that allows the system to continually embrace new technologies. Over the past 17 years, the bulk of the system has been modernized to outpace evolving threats.
• Global Interoperability: Backed by over 240 delivered fire units across a 19-nation consortium, enabling allied forces to train and seamlessly operate together in combat.
• Proven Reliability: Backed by extensive testing—including more than 3,000 ground tests, 1,400+ flight tests, and over 250 combat engagements—with a distinct growth path ensuring operational relevance through 2048 and beyond.

GhostEye Radar

The GhostEye radar is an advanced, highly mobile 360-degree surveillance and fire control sensor engineered to detect, track, and identify a broad spectrum of modern airborne threats. Built for mission versatility, it excels in integrated air and missile defense, counter-UAS operations, and the defense of critical infrastructure such as air bases.

Key Features & Capabilities

• 360-Degree Coverage: Delivers comprehensive surveillance and tracking in all directions to counter cruise missiles, drones, and fixed- or rotary-wing aircraft.
• NASAMS Integration: Serves as the future advanced sensor for the NASAMS medium-range air defense system (a long-standing partnership between Raytheon and Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace). It extends range and altitude coverage to maximize effectors like the AMRAAM and AMRAAM-ER missiles.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Leverages architectural commonality with the U.S. Army's LTAMDS, featuring:
  • Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA): Enhances target detection, targeting, and tracking.
  • Gallium Nitride (GaN): Military-grade GaN technology strengthens radar signals and maximizes sensitivity for longer range, higher resolution, and increased capacity.
• Open Architecture Design: Built with a flexible framework that allows for rapid technology adaptations to stay ahead of new and evolving threats.

Coyote C-UAS (Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System)

The Coyote is a combat-proven, highly versatile family of low-cost, rail-launched missile and unmanned aircraft variants developed by Raytheon (an RTX business). Engineered to outpace evolving aerial threats, the Coyote platform provides exceptional performance against single drones and massive, coordinated drone swarms.

Operating at longer ranges and higher altitudes than similar-class effectors, the Coyote family acts as a vital interceptor component within modern layered air defense architectures—most notably anchoring the U.S. Army's Low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System (LIDS).

Core System Integration & Capabilities

• Sensor Pairing (KuRFS): Integrates seamlessly with Raytheon’s Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor (KuRFS) radar to deliver precise 360-degree tracking, target acquisition, and fire-control guidance.
• Multi-Domain Deployment: Designed for operational flexibility, it can be launched from fixed sites or mobile platforms across land, air, and sea (including tactical vehicles and maritime vessels).
• Cross-Domain Missions: Beyond counter-UAS, the modular architecture supports broader Launched Effects (LE) missions, including reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition (RSTA), electronic warfare, and communications.

Primary Variants

1. Coyote Block 2 (Kinetic Effector)

• Type: Expendable interceptor missile.
• Propulsion: Features a solid-fuel boost rocket motor paired with a turbine engine for high-speed intercepts.
• Function: Uses a precision kinetic warhead (proximity-fragmentation) to physically destroy small-to-large target drones (Groups 1 through 3) with high maneuverability.

2. Coyote Block 3NK (Non-Kinetic Effector)

• Type: Reusable / recallable non-kinetic interceptor.
• Function: Built to defeat massive drone swarms using a non-kinetic payload (such as a high-power microwave module) that disrupts electronics without causing destructive collateral damage.
• Key Advantage: Can loiter over the battlefield, accomplish its mission, and be safely recalled, recovered, and redeployed for subsequent engagements.

Operational Impact

Extensively validated in combat deployments and high-profile military exercises, the Coyote family gives military forces an economically viable capability. It ensures operators match low-cost adversary threats (such as massed loitering munitions) with an appropriately priced, highly effective interceptor rather than wasting strategic, multi-million-dollar defense missiles.

Phaser High-Power Microwave (HPM) System

The Phaser High-Power Microwave System is an advanced directed-energy anti-drone weapon developed by Raytheon. Designed to protect critical assets around the globe, it provides decisive base defense by neutralizing single drones or massive drone swarms instantly at the speed of light.

Instead of physical interceptors, the system projects a wide, arcing beam of electromagnetic energy. This short, high-power burst fries the onboard electronics of targeted aircraft, causing simultaneous electronic failures and dropping multiple drones straight out of the sky.

Core Capabilities & Operational Testing

• Speed-of-Light Engagement: Instantly targets and neutralizes threats, providing zero reaction window for incoming aerial attackers.
• Swarm Mitigation: Employs a wide energy beam capability to disable multiple drones at the same time.
• Joint Military Validation: Extensively tested and demonstrated across branches of the U.S. military, following a dedicated directed-energy Army demonstration.
• Rapid Operator Readiness: Validated during U.S. Air Force exercises where service personnel successfully took control of Raytheon's high-power microwave and high-energy laser systems after just one day of training, defeating drones in real-world scenarios.
• Flexible Integration: Engineered to be utilized either independently or combined directly with Raytheon's high-energy laser systems for an integrated multi-tier defense strategy.

KuRFS (Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor)

The Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor (KuRFS) is an advanced 360-degree radar designed to provide persistent detection, identification, and tracking of a wide range of airborne threats—from rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM) to all classes of unmanned aircraft systems (drones).  

Originally engineered by Raytheon to protect U.S. Army forces against RAM attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, KuRFS has proven exceptionally effective for modern Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) missions. It forms a core foundational component of the U.S. Army's deployed LIDS (Low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System) solution.  

Core Capabilities & Integration

• Multi-Mission Performance: Delivers reliable threat acquisition across complex operational spaces, transitioning seamlessly from a sense-and-warn radar to an active air-surveillance and fire-control asset.  
• Weapon System Compatibility: Integrates fluidly with multiple defensive options, including:

• Raytheon’s Coyote kinetic effectors  
• Land-based Phalanx Weapon Systems  
• .50-caliber guns and 30 mm cannons  
• High Energy Laser (HEL) systems  

Precision Tracking & Technology

• Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA): Utilizes advanced AESA technology to allow exact, rapid electronic steering of its radar beam directly toward emerging threats.  
• Ku-Band Spectrum Advantage: Operating on the Ku-band yields exceptionally short wavelengths, producing significantly sharper image resolution than other segments of the electromagnetic spectrum.  
• Advanced Discrimination: Gives the radar the unique capability to identify and discriminate among multiple small objects simultaneously, reliably differentiate between biological and non-biological targets, and even detect and identify an incoming 9 mm bullet.

High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS)

Raytheon’s High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) is an advanced directed-energy weapon that utilizes high-energy photons (particles of light) to rapidly detect, track, and defeat airborne threats. Engineered for today's dynamic and evolving battlespace, HELWS provides military operators with a reliable, combat-proven solution designed to strengthen existing air defense architectures.

Core Capabilities & Performance

• Proven Operational Track Record: Certified for combat use, HELWS has accumulated more than 25,000 operational hours across global deployments. It can be deployed as a standalone asset or integrated seamlessly into broader air defense networks.
• Multi-Threat Engagement: Delivers fast, precise defense against rogue drones (unmanned aerial systems), rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM).
• Cost-Effective Defense: Powered directly by electricity, HELWS allows operators to fire a virtually infinite number of shots at a fraction of the cost of traditional physical munitions, dramatically cutting down logistical burdens.

Multi-Domain Versatility & Platform Integration

Engineered with a low size, weight, and power (SWaP) profile alongside an open architecture design, HELWS offers unmatched mission flexibility across multiple domains—operating effectively on land, in the air, and at sea.

The system's broad compatibility enables integration across a wide range of platforms:

• Trucks and tactical vehicles (such as light utility vehicles)
• Armored combat vehicles (with full installation and testing completed by Raytheon for Army fleets)
• Ships and maritime platforms
• Airborne platforms
• Transportable, containerized standalone systems

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Latest News

May 2025

RTX Had Deepened Its Footprint in the UAE Through Gallium Project and Counter-Drone Facility

RTX had expanded its presence in the UAE through an agreement with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) to explore the production of gallium at EGA’s UAE facility. Gallium had been identified as a critical material for defense applications, particularly for advanced radar systems. The development had supported RTX’s efforts to strengthen its UAE-based supply chain for strategically important materials while deepening its broader defense and technology presence in the country. The company had also been developing counter-drone capabilities and facilities in the UAE, further strengthening its involvement in the region’s growing demand for systems designed to detect and counter unmanned aerial threats.