TEWKSBURY, Mass., Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
"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, major program manager for Above
Water Sensors, Program Executive Office (PEO) Integrated Warfare
Systems (IWS). "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."
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.
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