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The radar bound for the Navy’s new Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers successfully tracked a complex ballistic missile target as part of a battery of tests to prove out the new system, Naval Sea Systems Command announced on Thursday.
The Raytheon-built AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), based at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai Hawaii, detected and tracked medium-range ballistic missile target for the test on July 27, 2017, NAVSEA said.
“We are continuing to stress this radar by increasing the range and complexity of the targets and demonstrating the… capability and versatility of the Navy’s next generation Integrated Air and Missile Defense radar,” said Navy Capt. Seiko Okano, major program manager for Above Water Sensors, Program Executive Office (PEO) Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS).
According NAVSEA, “based on preliminary data, the test successfully met its primary objectives against a complex medium range ballistic missile (MRBM) target. Program officials will continue to evaluate system performance based upon telemetry and other data obtained during the test.”
The Vigilant Titan test is the second in a series of BMD tests for the systems that will replace the Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1D(V) volume search radar resident on the current Flight IIA on the Navy’s Flight III variants of the Burkes.
“The testing … has evaluated the radar’s ability to track satellites, aircraft, and ballistic missiles,” according to the June issue of Proceedings.
“In mid-March, in an exercise called Vigilant Hunter, the radar successfully acquired and tracked a short-range ballistic missile target.”
AMDR promises 30 times more sensitivity than the current crop of SPYs and designed to find and track traditional air warfare and ballistic missile threats simultaneously for the new Flight III ships.
Huntington Ingalls Industries was awarded an engineering change proposal to build the first Flight III in June.
https://news.usni.org/2017/08/03/navsea-new-spy-6-radar-scores-ballistic-missile-defense-test
