Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS), based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a unit of The Boeing Company, responsible for defense and aerospace products. It a consolidated group consisting of the following acquired companies:

• Boeing Vertol, formerly Piasecki Helicopter
• Hughes Satellite Systems
• Hughes Helicopters
• The St. Louis-based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company
• The former North American Aviation division of Rockwell
• Rocketdyne

Boeing IDS also controls the Phantom Works research group, which develops black projects.

Table of contents

1 Products 1.1 Bombers 1.2 Helicopters 1.3 Tactical fighters 1.4 Tankers and transports 1.5 Surveillance and other military 1.6 Unmanned aerial vehicles 1.7 Missiles 1.8 Space launch and exploration 1.9 Satellites 1.10 Other 2 Other divisions 3 Facilities

Products

Bombers

• Y1B-9
• B-17 Flying Fortress
• B-29 Superfortress
• B-47 Stratojet
• B-50 Superfortress
• B-52 Stratofortress
• B-1B Lancer (Rockwell)
• B-2 Spirit (in contractor team under Northrop Grumman)

Helicopters

• AH-64 Apache
• CH-46 Sea Knight
• CH-47 Chinook
• V-22 Osprey (with Bell Helicopter)
• RAH-66 Comanche (with Sikorsky), cancelled light attack helicopter

Tactical fighters

• P-26 Peashooter
• F-4 Phantom II (McDonnell Douglas)
• F-15 Eagle (McDonnell Douglas)
• AV-8A Harrier (British Aerospace)
• AV-8B Harrier II (McDonnell Douglas/British Aerospace)
• Harrier GR9 (BAe/McDonnell Douglas)
• F/A-18 Hornet (McDonnell Douglas)
  See also: Blue Angels aerobatic team
• F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
• F/A-22 Raptor (subcontractor with Lockheed Martin)
• X-32, Boeing's losing entry for the Joint Strike Fighter competition

Tankers and transports

• KC-135 Stratotanker
• KC-10 Extender (McDonnell Douglas)
• KC-767, replacement for KC-135
• C-22
• C-32A Executive Transport
• C-40 Clipper
• YC-14
• YC-15 (McDonnell Douglas)
• C-17 Globemaster III (McDonnell Douglas)
• VC-25A ("Air Force One")

Surveillance and other military

• Airborne Laser
• EC-135
• OC-135 Open Skies
• RC-135 Rivet Joint
• E-3 Sentry (an AWACS surveillance aircraft)
• E-4B (Advanced Airborne Command Post)
• E-6 TACAMO
• E-8 Joint STARS, ground battle management
• E-10 MC2A (successor to the E-3, E-8, EC-135)
• T-43
• T-45 Goshawk
• Project Wedgetail (AEW&C;)
• Multimission Maritime Aircraft (ASW)
• X-36 (Tailless Agility Research Aircraft)

Unmanned aerial vehicles

• X-45

Missiles

• BOMARC
• AGM-48 Skybolt (Douglas)
• AGM-84 Harpoon (McDonnell Douglas)
• AGM-86 ALCM Cruise Missile
• AGM-114 Hellfire (McDonnell Douglas)
• BGM-109 Tomahawk (McDonnell Douglas)
• Brimstone

Space launch and exploration

• X-20 Dyna-Soar
• X-40
• Saturn V
• Crew Return Vehicle
• Inertial Upper Stage
• International Space Station
• Solar Orbit Transfer Vehicle
• Space Shuttle (Rockwell)
• Delta rocket (aka Thor-Delta)
• Delta II
• Delta III
• Delta IV EELV
• Sea Launch (with Energia, Kvaerner, and Yuzhnoe)

Satellites

• Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
• GPS Satellitess (Rockwell)
• Integrated Solar Upper Stage
• Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Weapon System
• XSS Micro-satellite
• 376 (formerly Hughes Satellite Systems - HSS)
• 601 (formerly HSS)
• 702 (formerly HSS)

Other

• Avenger
• Bird of Prey
• Sandia/Rockwell MAGLEV
• Pegasus class hydrofoils

Other divisions

• Phantom Works
• Rocketdyne
• Boeing Satellite Systems
• United Space Alliance (with Lockheed Martin)
• Sea Launch (40%)

Facilities

• Mesa, Arizona
• El Segundo, California
• Long Beach, California
• Macon, Georgia
• St. Louis, Missouri
• Wichita, Kansas
• Houston, Texas

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