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Raytheon demos UAV auto cross-cueing with ATGWs

7th October 2008 - 01:00 GMT | by Darren Lake in Washington, DC

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Last month Raytheon completed a demonstration of cross cueing between a tactical UAV and manned anti-tank guided weapons (ATGW) at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.

Speaking to UVonline.com at AUSA Annual in Washington, DC Jonathan Peppard, one of the company executives working on the project and a former US Army intelligence officer, said that the demonstration showed the great potential of this type of cross-cueing with manned assets on the ground.

The demonstration, conducted with a Killer Bee UAV, showed how the EO/IR sensor on a UAV could be autonomously cued by a weapon operator on the ground, such as

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