US Army project to field Chinese ship-sinking capability now called Strategic Mid-Range Fires

[Surya 1]

YES SUPAPAWA HINDUTVA NUMBA ONE!!

I'm sure that Indian missile will reach faster than light speed when you fuel it with cow piss and copium.

Frustration is clearly visible in your post.

 

[MajesticPug]

Gerald R Ford alonne can sink half of the Chinese navy.

 

[F-22Raptor]

I worry about US, by 2040 it would be a shadow of what it is now. It's days of being top dog is numbered. Just look at the Arleigh Burke / Ticonderoga ships. They are old, rusty compared to 055/052D. US has lost it's manufacturing capacity long back, they are in no position to compete against China, specially near Taiwan.

Ticons will be retired by the late 20s.

The Navy is buying Flight 3 Burke’s now, with the most advanced radar in the world, the SPY-6. You don’t know what your talking about.

 

[F-22Raptor]

I worry about US, by 2040 it would be a shadow of what it is now. It's days of being top dog is numbered. Just look at the Arleigh Burke / Ticonderoga ships. They are old, rusty compared to 055/052D. US has lost it's manufacturing capacity long back, they are in no position to compete against China, specially near Taiwan.

Another note:

At least 20 Burkes are conducting sea trials, under construction, or contract reward.

 

[Samar111]

True for your shxt indian navy, but not for PLA.

No money can buy bravery for the PLA. Look:

 

[Kai Liu]

No money can buy bravery for the PLA. Look:

'Bravery' like this?

 

[SQ8]

Essentially pacific domination - using phillipines and SK for A2/AD strategy to keep the PLAN bottled up near Chinese shores.

Whether this confrontation happens or not is irrelevant as it basically keeps Taiwan secure while China has to keep splurging on defense as its institutions aren’t geared to compete with the likes of Boeing, LM, NG,Raytheon on a commercial or export scale. The US is defense industry and plays the arms race better than anyone.

 

[Samar111]

'Bravery' like this?

Using Pakistani actors? How desperate can you get?

 

[StraightEdge]

Ticons will be retired by the late 20s.

The Navy is buying Flight 3 Burke’s now, with the most advanced radar in the world, the SPY-6. You don’t know what your talking about.

Just 3? Look at how the chinese are expanding the navy. More over they cost way more than a Type 055 even though inferior in many aspects. As for radar, how do you know it's the best? It's not like anyone outside US has tested this? Is it better than Type 346B? I don't know, but I also don't understand how would you know?

 

[F-22Raptor]

Just 3? Look at how the chinese are expanding the navy. More over they cost way more than a Type 055 even though inferior in many aspects. As for radar, how do you know it's the best? It's not like anyone outside US has tested this? Is it better than Type 346B? I don't know, but I also don't understand how would you know?

20 Burkes are in sea trials, under construction, or approved for construction.

Burkes have superior battle networks, radars, and weapons load out than Type 55s. SPY-6 will only enhance US Naval superiority.

With SPY-6, Navy Has Radar to Match the Range of its Missiles​

ARLINGTON, Va. — The SPY-6 air and missile defense radar, the first of which has been installed on a guided-missile destroyer, will give the Navy a sensor worthy of its long-range Standard SM-3 Block IIA surface missiles, Raytheon officials said.

Briefing reporters April 1, Ken Spurlock, Raytheon’s Strategic Missile Defense Requirements & Capabilities director, said the SM-3 missile “out-shot” the capabilities of earlier radars — presumably the SPY-1 on earlier DDGs. With the SPY-6, the SM-3 “can engage at the maximum range possible” for the missile.

Spurlock said the SPY-6 allows a ship to provide air and missile defense simultaneously, provide regional defense organically, offer greater clarity of the battlespace, give more defense in depth, reduce the risk of fratricide and reduce the number of missiles needed to defeat a target.

Also briefing was Michael Nulk, Raytheon’s associate director, Requirements and Capabilities – Naval Power, said the SPY-6 will give commanders the discrimination capability to make better decisions and to “change their shot doctrine.”

“There is no other radar with the surface maritime capabilities of SPY-6,” Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said in a March 31 release. “SPY-6 is the most advanced naval radar in existence, and it will provide our military a giant leap forward in capability for decades to come.”

Raytheon Missiles & Defense was awarded a $651 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract, with options totaling $2.5 billion, for “hardware, production and sustainment for full-rate production” of the SPY-6 family of radars. The contract provides for five years of production for radars for up to 31 U.S. Navy ships of seven types.

Scott Spence, naval radars executive director at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, also briefing reporters, said the company had 46 SPY-6 shipsets under contract, with six of those in work at the Raytheon plant. He said the enlarged footprint of the SPY-6 production will help reduce sustainment costs.

Spence noted the last transmitter that Raytheon builds for the SPY-1 radar will be delivered in April, concluding 41 years of production for the SPY-1.

The SPY-6 family includes the SPY-6(V)1, being installed on Flight III Arleigh Burke-class DDGs. The (V)1 has four flat antenna faces each with 37 radar module assemblies. This air-and-missile-defense radar has been installed on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), scheduled to join the fleet in 2024. The second shipset has been delivered for installation on the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128).

The SPY-6(V)2 Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) has a rotating face with nine RMAs. The (V)2 will equip the America-class and Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships, and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

The SPY-6(V)3 EASR has three fixed faces each with nine RMAs. The (V)3 will be installed on Ford-class aircraft carriers and Constellation-class guided-missile frigates.

The SPY-6(V)4 EASR will have four fixed faces each with 24 RMAs. The (V)4 will be back-fitted on some Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class DDGs.

 

[StraightEdge]

20 Burkes are in sea trials, under construction, or approved for construction.

Burkes have superior battle networks, radars, and weapons load out than Type 55s. SPY-6 will only enhance US Naval superiority.

With SPY-6, Navy Has Radar to Match the Range of its Missiles​

ARLINGTON, Va. — The SPY-6 air and missile defense radar, the first of which has been installed on a guided-missile destroyer, will give the Navy a sensor worthy of its long-range Standard SM-3 Block IIA surface missiles, Raytheon officials said.

Briefing reporters April 1, Ken Spurlock, Raytheon’s Strategic Missile Defense Requirements & Capabilities director, said the SM-3 missile “out-shot” the capabilities of earlier radars — presumably the SPY-1 on earlier DDGs. With the SPY-6, the SM-3 “can engage at the maximum range possible” for the missile.

Spurlock said the SPY-6 allows a ship to provide air and missile defense simultaneously, provide regional defense organically, offer greater clarity of the battlespace, give more defense in depth, reduce the risk of fratricide and reduce the number of missiles needed to defeat a target.

Also briefing was Michael Nulk, Raytheon’s associate director, Requirements and Capabilities – Naval Power, said the SPY-6 will give commanders the discrimination capability to make better decisions and to “change their shot doctrine.”

“There is no other radar with the surface maritime capabilities of SPY-6,” Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said in a March 31 release. “SPY-6 is the most advanced naval radar in existence, and it will provide our military a giant leap forward in capability for decades to come.”

Raytheon Missiles & Defense was awarded a $651 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract, with options totaling $2.5 billion, for “hardware, production and sustainment for full-rate production” of the SPY-6 family of radars. The contract provides for five years of production for radars for up to 31 U.S. Navy ships of seven types.

Scott Spence, naval radars executive director at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, also briefing reporters, said the company had 46 SPY-6 shipsets under contract, with six of those in work at the Raytheon plant. He said the enlarged footprint of the SPY-6 production will help reduce sustainment costs.

Spence noted the last transmitter that Raytheon builds for the SPY-1 radar will be delivered in April, concluding 41 years of production for the SPY-1.

The SPY-6 family includes the SPY-6(V)1, being installed on Flight III Arleigh Burke-class DDGs. The (V)1 has four flat antenna faces each with 37 radar module assemblies. This air-and-missile-defense radar has been installed on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), scheduled to join the fleet in 2024. The second shipset has been delivered for installation on the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128).

The SPY-6(V)2 Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) has a rotating face with nine RMAs. The (V)2 will equip the America-class and Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships, and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

The SPY-6(V)3 EASR has three fixed faces each with nine RMAs. The (V)3 will be installed on Ford-class aircraft carriers and Constellation-class guided-missile frigates.

The SPY-6(V)4 EASR will have four fixed faces each with 24 RMAs. The (V)4 will be back-fitted on some Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class DDGs.

You've just quoted a private company saying their products are the best. Is that your argument?

 

[F-22Raptor]

You've just quoted a private company saying their products are the best. Is that your argument?

SPY-6 is also 100 times as sensitive as the current SPY-1.

Sailors Get a Firsthand Look at the Navy's New SPY-6 Radar System

Sailors and other spectators got an up-close look at the new air- and missile-defense radar being added to Navy ships.

www.military.com

There's no other naval radar as capable as the SPY-6.

 

[StraightEdge]

SPY-6 is also 100 times as sensitive as the current SPY-1.

Sailors Get a Firsthand Look at the Navy's New SPY-6 Radar System

Sailors and other spectators got an up-close look at the new air- and missile-defense radar being added to Navy ships.

www.military.com

There's no other naval radar as capable as the SPY-6.

That's a claim, burden of proof lies with you.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Gerald R ford can sink hslh of Chinese navy. A Russian expert had said that China will loose 40 pc of its navy to sink one US aircraft carrier. The article is here on PDF.

PLAN is aware of that, they pinning their hopes on PLAAF

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1517486492750209025

US Army to procure 1,100 Precision Strike Missiles over next 5 years. Increment 2 of PrSM will incorporate an advanced seeker to target maritime targets around the 2025 timeframe