Raytheons innovative satellite-guided 155mm artillery shell was used in operations in Iraq last weekend to kill a top local al Qaeda leader south of Baghdad. Bloomberg News Tony Capaccio reports a ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - The Army honored four weapons-development teams based here by presenting each a highly coveted top 10 Army Greatest Inventions of the Year Award for 2007 June 12. In an April ...

Troops with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division have become the first American unit to fire in combat a new artillery round with extended range accuracy, military officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON — A Raytheon-made satellite-guided artillery shell — the first weapon of its kind — killed a top al-Qaida leader in Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The firing of two new 155mm ...

The first-generation Excalibur XM982 guided artillery round was praised by the Army and many analysts for its accuracy. With a combination of GPS satellite and inertial guidance - hardened to ...

ARMY Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., was awarded on June 9, 2006, a $42,765,950 modification to a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the production of the XM982 Excalibur Unitary Guided ...

IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, are a sad fact of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, so you’ll see the influence of these deadly weapons in this list of the US Army‘s top inventions for 2007. Every ...

You know how there is that option to turn off your phone’s GPS tracking? Now you know why. Hit the jump for my sad list of rejected one-liners. No military entity should be allowed to name their own ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --Raytheon has been awarded a contract for research and development designs for multiple weapon systems owned by the company. The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is ...