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USS Wasp first-ever carrier to use Joint Precision Approach and Landing System on deployment

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Early in 2018, U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighters deployed to the Pacific aboard the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship, and used Raytheon Company’s (NYSE: RTN) Intelligence, Information and Services business’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) to guide them onto the ship’s deck in all weather and surface conditions up to the rough…