Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
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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 Helicopters, formerly Boeing Vertol and 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
Boeing IDS also controls the Phantom Works research group.
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Products
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B-52 Stratofortress
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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)
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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
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X-32 Joint Strike Fighter
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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
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KC-135 Stratotanker refuels F/A-22 Raptor
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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")
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E-3 Sentry
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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)
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X-45 UAV
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Unmanned aerial vehicles
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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
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Delta rocket family
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Space launch and exploration
Boeing Launch Services Inc. (BLS) is Boeing's commercial launch service provider.
- X-20 Dyna-Soar
- X-40
- S-IC first stage (Boeing), S-II second stage (North American Aviation) and S-IVB third stage (Douglas Aircraft Company)
- Apollo Command/Service Module (North American Aviation)
- 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)
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Satellites
- Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
- GPS Satellites (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)
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Pegasus class hydrofoils
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Other
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Other divisions
- Phantom Works
- Boeing Satellite Systems, formerly a unit of Hughes Electronics
- United Launch Alliance (with Lockheed Martin)
- United Space Alliance (with Lockheed Martin)
- Sea Launch (40%)
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Facilities
- Mesa, Arizona
- El Segundo, California
- Long Beach, California
- Macon, Georgia
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Wichita, Kansas
- Houston, Texas
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