TEWKSBURY, Mass., Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company's
(NYSE: RTN) AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar acquired and
tracked multiple threat-representative targets simultaneously
during its third dedicated flight test at the U.S. Navy's Pacific
Missile Range Facility, Kauai,
Hawaii.
Test success proved AN/SPY-6(V) integrated air and missile
defense performance against a short-range ballistic missile target
and multiple anti-ship cruise missile targets. The radar searched
for, detected and tracked all targets from launch throughout their
flights. The test demonstrated the radar's sensitivity and resource
management, a critical multi-mission capability to extend the
battlespace and safeguard the fleet from multiple threats.
"The speed, range, trajectory and complexity of multiple targets
proved no match for AN/SPY-6 – it acquired and tracked them all,"
said Raytheon's Tad Dickenson,
AN/SPY-6(V) program director. "It was truly gratifying for our
government-Raytheon team to see the culmination of our engineering
efforts in action, and achieve our third straight
success."
"This radar was specifically designed to handle ballistic
missiles and cruise missiles simultaneously and it's doing just
that," said U.S. Navy Captain Seiko
Okano, Major Program Manager for Above Water Sensors,
Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems. "AMDR is
successfully demonstrating performance in a series of increasingly
difficult test events and is on track to deliver advanced
capability to the Navy's first Flight III Destroyer."
Successes for AN/SPY-6 continue to stack up, following its
second ballistic missile test flight in July. The radar has now
demonstrated its performance against an array of singular and
simultaneous live targets of increasing complexity, including
integrated air and missile defense targets of opportunity,
satellites and aircraft.
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