Coyote Interceptor
Family of Raytheon (RTX) kinetic counter-drone interceptors (Block 2/3 variants), originally derived from a target-drone airframe and now fielded as the U.S. military’s primary precision hard-kill effector against Group 1–3 sUAS, including Shahed-class one-way attack drones.
tom-karako of csis suspects Coyote — alongside the Merops optical-tracking system — has done “the lion’s share of the drone killing” in centcom during operation-epic-fury (src-counter-drone-middle-east-jiatf-2026-04).