{"id":33295,"date":"2024-02-12T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2024\/02\/12\/rtx-to-supply-600-coyote-drone-interceptors-to-army\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:57:39","slug":"rtx-to-supply-600-coyote-drone-interceptors-to-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/uas\/2024\/02\/12\/rtx-to-supply-600-coyote-drone-interceptors-to-army\/","title":{"rendered":"RTX to supply 600 Coyote drone interceptors to Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Army is buying hundreds of drone-killing Coyote interceptors from defense contractor RTX to fortify its ability to counter unmanned aerial systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service agreed to pay $75 million for 600 of the ground-launched, radar-guided Coyote 2C devices, it said Feb. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort was led by its Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space<\/a>, tasked with developing overhead defenses, long-range rocket systems, directed-energy lasers and more. Using a method known as rapid acquisition authority, the Army is expected to secure the counter-drone munitions in less than 30 days. Other, more traditional means can take months or years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Army already deploys some Coyote systems in mobile and stationary setups \u2014 in what\u2019s known as the Low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System, or LIDS \u2014 this latest purchase marks growth in demand and production. It comes on the heels of a contracting notice<\/a> describing the military\u2019s intent to obtain and deploy thousands of Coyote interceptors and hundreds of their associated launchers and radars in the next five fiscal years.<\/p>\n\n\n\t