Raytheon delivers first SPY-6 radar array to U.S. Navy's newest destroyer

[F-22Raptor]

ANDOVER, Mass., July 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array for installation on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the U.S. Navy's first Flight III guided-missile destroyer. The SPY-6 family of radars performs simultaneous air, missile and surface defense on seven types of U.S. Navy ships.

"SPY-6 will change how the Navy conducts surface fleet operations," said Capt. Jason Hall, program manager for Above-Water Sensors for the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems. "Our ships will be able to see farther, react quicker and defend against threats in a way we couldn't before."

The 14' x 14' modular array was transported by truck from the company's automated 30,000-square-foot Radar Development Facility in Andover, Massachusetts, to Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

"This is the start of what will be a steady stream of SPY-6 array deliveries to the shipyard," said Kim Ernzen, vice president of Naval Power at Raytheon Missiles & Defense. "Threats to Navy ships are getting smaller and faster. SPY-6 will extend the Navy's reach against dangers like drones, ballistic missiles, aircraft and unmanned ships."

The SPY-6(V) family of radars delivers significantly greater range, increased accuracy, greater resistance to environmental and man-made electronic clutter, advanced electronic protection, and higher reliability than currently deployed radars.

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[FuturePAF]

From Raytheon. The Trump arms build up to counter China.

 

[Prince Kassad]

What are the key differences between the DBR (The SPY-3 & SPY-4 system which was designed for the Zumwalts & fitted to CVN-78, not the watered-down version eventually fitted to the Zumwalts) and the SPY-6 system designed for the Flight III Arleigh Burkes?

 

[F-22Raptor]

From Raytheon. The Trump arms build up to counter China.
https://youtu.be/eCFNxxEriQM

SPY-6 on Flight 3s are 100 times as sensitive as SPY-1s. Its an incredibly powerful radar.



The Navy is confronting a welcome challenge -- what to do with a new radar that is three times better than expected. Government testers recently completed developmental evaluation of the SPY-6(V)1 radar and concluded the new, Raytheon-built sensor is nearly 100 times more sensitive than the legacy SPY-1 radar, built by Lockheed Martin. This previously unreported determination has implications not only for the reach of the SPY-6(V)1 sensor slated for the Navy's new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, but also...

https://insidedefense.com/daily-new...dar-three-times-stronger-original-requirement

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Does US have money to build a destroyer? Economy is really bad in US.