Raytheon has teamed up with Major Tool and Machine Inc. to develop structures for SPY-6 missile defence radars for the US Navy.
Raytheon has signed an agreement with Major Tool and Machine Inc. to create structures for SPY-6 missile defence radars for when the programme transitions from low-rate initial production to hardware production and sustainment. SPY-6 is a family of next-generation, integrated air and missile defense radars that is being installed on more than 50 ships across seven Navy ship classes.
Since its inception in January 2014, the Raytheon-led SPY-6 program has met all 20 milestones, ahead of or on schedule. AN/SPY-6(V) remains on schedule for delivery to the first DDG 51 Flight III, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). The first delivery of AN/SPY-6(V)2 to LHA 8, the USS Bougainville, an America Class Amphibious Assault Ship, is on plan for 2021.
Vice President of Raytheon’s Seapower Capability Systems business, Paul Ferraro, said: “Our team of industry-leading partners is ready to deliver SPY-6’s unmatched, multi-mission capability to the surface fleet.”
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The SPY-6 family are integrated, meaning they can defend against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hostile aircraft and surface ships simultaneously. They provide several advantages over legacy radars, including significantly greater detection range, increased sensitivity and more accurate discrimination.
Those boxes stack together to fit the mission requirements of any ship – a feature that makes the SPY-6 family the Navy’s first truly scalable radars. SPY-6 is the U.S. Navy family of radars that perform air and missile defense on seven classes of ships.
Each variant uses the same hardware and software, and their construction is modular, making them more reliable and less expensive to maintain. SPY-6 radars are built from individual ‘building blocks’ called Radar Modular Assemblies, or self-contained radars that come in 2’x2’x2’ boxes.
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