By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] has developed a way to offer its active electronically scanned array (AESA) to legacy aircraft such as F-18 Hornets and F-16s with minimal intrusion into the aircraft, a company official said. The Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR) brings the company's most advanced aviation radar system to older airplanes, thus enabling commonality with more advanced platforms such as Boeing's [BA] F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Mike Henchey, Raytheon's director of Strategy and Business Development for Tactical Airborne Systems,…
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