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Raytheon Teams With Swift Engineering On KillerBee UAS

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

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Raytheon [RTN] announced it has teamed with Swift Engineering Inc. to provide the Navy and Marinea with KillerBee, an unmanned aircraft system for their respective small tactical unmanned aircraft systems and Tier 2 missions. Raytheon leads the team and offers aircraft and mission systems integration with connectivity to the customers' combat systems and command and control systems. Swift Engineering, based in San Clemente, Calif., is providing its innovative KillerBee unmanned aerial vehicle. KillerBee can add persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance…

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