WiPak enables integration of Paveway on a variety of aircraft previously unable to carry the weapon, and WiPak does so without modifying aircraft wiring or changing flight and stores management software, said Harry Schulte, Raytheon Missile Systems’ vice president of Air Warfare Systems. With WiPak, aviators can easily and quickly employ Paveway for a small fraction of what it would cost to integrate Paveway through traditional means.
Raytheon has integrated WiPak on the Embraer Super Tucano counterinsurgency aircraft and is in the process of testing and deploying the system on similar aircraft.
About the Paveway Family of Weapons
The combat-proven Paveway is a kit that transforms dumb bombs into precision-guided weapons. Paveway II and Paveway III are laser-guidance kits, while the Enhanced Paveway II, Enhanced Paveway III and Paveway IV use both laser and GPS guidance.
Paveway Highlights
More than 300,000 Paveways are in the inventory of 43 nations.
The Paveway family of weapons is integrated on 25 aircraft.
Thousands of Paveways have been used in combat.