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New Radar Proving It’s More than a Match for Ballistic Missiles

August 18, 2017 By Steve Schneider

AN/SPY-6(V) array installed at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii (PRNewsfoto/Raytheon Company)

Raytheon has proven a complex target is no match for its new AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defense radar (AMDR).

The new radar, a gallium nitride-based AMDR will soon be aboard the U.S. Navy’s Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

“We are continuing to stress this radar by increasing the range and complexity of the targets and demonstrating the radar is meeting its performance requirements,” said Navy Capt. Seiko Okano, the Navy’s major program manager for Above Water Sensors. “AN/SPY-6 is the nation’s most advanced radar and will be the cornerstone of the U.S. Navy’s surface combatants for many decades.”

The advancement of gallium nitride-based AMDR radars could lead to smaller more capable radars in the future.

Raytheon Company’s (NYSE: RTN) AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar successfully searched for, acquired and tracked a ballistic missile test target during its second live-target flight test at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii.

This test event featured a more complex, threat-representative ballistic missile target than prior tests, intended to challenge the detection and tracking capabilities of the new radar. AN/SPY-6 acquired and maintained the long-range missile target track, from launch through flight.

This result is the most recent in a series of successes for AN/SPY-6, following the tracking of the first ballistic missile target in March 2017. Building up to that milestone, the radar was tested against targets of increasing complexity, including integrated air and missile defense targets of opportunity, satellites and aircraft.

Having achieved Milestone C, ahead of schedule, the program remains on track for delivery to the first DDG 51 Flight III destroyer. AN/SPY-6(V) transitioned to Low Rate Initial Production with the May 1st contract award for the first three ship sets.

AN/SPY-6(V) provides greater capability – in range, sensitivity and discrimination accuracy – than currently deployed radars, increasing battlespace, situational awareness and reaction time to effectively counter current and future threats. It is the first scalable radar, built with Radar Modular Assemblies – radar building blocks. Each RMA, roughly 2′ x 2′ x 2′ in size, is a standalone radar that can be grouped to build any size radar aperture, from a single RMA to configurations larger than currently fielded radars.

The U.S. Navy’s new Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar leverages the highly-scalable design and mature technologies of AN/SPY-6 in a scaled nine-RMA configuration to meet the mission requirements of carriers and amphibious ships. The commonality – in both hardware and software – with AN/SPY-6 offers a host of advantages, including maintenance; training; logistics; and lifecycle support.

Source: Raytheon

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