On March 18, the U.S. Navy released its FY2020 budget proposal which indicated plans to procure a smaller variant of the SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) to retrofit on its Arleigh Burke Flight IIA destroyers. The Flight IIA destroyers are currently fitted with the SPY-1D(V) radar. The new SPY-6 variant will include 24...
On January 31, the U.S. Navy successfully tracked a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) target with its AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kaua’i. Designated “Vigilant Nemesis,” this was the final developmental test for the AMDR in a series of ballistic missile defense (BMD) tests. Program manager for...
On October 11, the U.S. Navy conducted a test of the Raytheon-built Air and Missile Defense Radar at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The AN/SPY-6(V) radar system successfully detected, recognized, and tracked multiple targets simultaneously, and for the first time, tracked a ballistic missile through intercept. Currently in production, the radar is...
On May 7, the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) announced the start of construction on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). The NAVSEA report explained that the Jack Lucas “will be the first Arleigh Burke class destroyer built in the Flight III configuration with improved capability and capacity to perform Anti-Air Warfare...
On September 7, the U.S. Navy completed its third test of the new AN/SPY-6 (V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). According to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), during the Vigilant Talon flight test the radar searched for, detected, and simultaneously tracked a complex short-range ballistic missile and multiple air-to-surface cruise missile targets throughout their...
On July 27, the U.S. Navy successfully conducted an AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) test. AMDR detected and tracked a medium-range ballistic missile target. AMDR is planned to equip the Navy’s new Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers. The Naval Sea Systems Command released the following statement concerning the test: U.S. Navy successfully...
On March 15, the Navy conducted a successful flight test using the AN/SPY-6 (V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) to track a target from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii. According to a March 30 statement made by Naval Sea Systems Command, the flight test, referred to as ‘Vigilant Hunter,’ achieved its...
