Raytheon Completes First Flight Test for Raiven Sensing System

Published: 2026-04-15 17:07:53 ET RTX

Published on 04/15/2026 at 05:07 pm EDT

Raytheon, an RTX business, has successfully completed the first flight test of its RAIVEN Staring system, an air-cooled sensor suite that delivers greater situational awareness and operator survivability, on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. During the test, the system, which included three sensors, accurately mapped urban landscape, marshes and coastline in zero illumination and with 270-degree situational awareness. RAIVEN Staring, part of the RAIVEN product family, is a next-generation electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) solution that is platform agnostic, scalable and customizable for missions across air, ground and sea.

Its open systems architecture allows for easy system integration and component upgrades. The RAIVEN EO/IR product family is configurable and can support up to a spherical 360-degree field of view, which significantly improves the speed and accuracy of object detection, recognition and identification. This provides operators with increased visibility in a variety of degraded visual environments, terrains and battle scenarios.

The sensors are produced in McKinney, Texas. Additional flight tests will take place throughout 2026.