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🇺🇸 Raytheon Coyote
Land · Raytheon (RTX Corporation), ABD · 2019 (IOC, ABD Ordusu Howler)
The Raytheon Coyote (Block 2) is a small, tube-launched interceptor drone built to destroy other drones cheaply; it answers swarms with an affordable kinetic kill rather than spending a million-dollar SAM on a hobby-grade UAV.
Specifications
- Type: Expendable kinetic counter-UAS interceptor (anti-drone drone)
- Manufacturer / origin: Raytheon / RTX — USA
- Propulsion: Rocket booster + turbojet sustainer engine (jet)
- Speed: ~555-595 km/h (345-370 mph)
- Range: 10-15 km engagement range
- Loiter / re-attack: ~4 min endurance; re-attacks if first pass misses
- Munition / warhead: Tungsten fragment (fragmentation) warhead + proximity fuze
- Sensor / guidance: RF seeker head; pairs with KuRFS Ku-band radar (detection up to 16 km)
- Launch: Stationary/mobile rail or canister (land, sea, air)
- Unit cost: ~100,000 USD/shot (serial production target)
- Service / integration: IOC 2019 (Howler/LIDS); opened to export in 2020; combat-proven
Beats: Gepard 35mm (Almanya) — namlu menzili dışındaki İHA'yı 15 km'den vurur, top kapsamını aşar, IRIS-T SLS (Almanya) — drone başına maliyeti çok daha düşük, ucuz tehdide ucuz cevap verir, Pantsir-S1 top/füze (Rusya) — adanmış RF arayıcı + tekrar-saldırı ile küçük İHA'ya karşı daha isabetli
Loses to: NASAMS / AMRAAM (Norveç-ABD) — menzil ve daha büyük hava hedeflerinde üstün, Coyote sadece küçük İHA sınıfına özgü, Iron Dome Tamir (İsrail) — roket/füze tehdidini de karşılar, Coyote yalnız drone odaklıdır, Roadrunner-M (ABD) — tekrar-kullanılabilir/geri-iniş yapan jet önleyici olarak kayıp-maliyetinde avantajlı
The Coyote flips the cost curve of drone defense: a cheap, expendable interceptor with a seeker and warhead, launched from a tube and cued by a ground radar (KuRFS) to ram or detonate near a hostile UAV. Combat-tested against one-way attack drones, it is purpose-built for the swarm problem. Its limits are small size and short range — it cannot touch fast, high or large targets.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Raytheon (RTX Corporation), ABD): Patriot (PAC-3), FGM-148 Javelin, AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9X Sidewinder
Related systems (Land): SİPER, HİSAR-O+, HİSAR-A+, SUNGUR, KORKUT, Tayfun, GÜRZ, S-400 Triumf, Bora, Kara Atmaca
