U.S. Navy begins live fire testing preparations for Raytheon's AN/SPY-6(V) radar
NewsJuly 07, 2016
TEWKSBURY, Mass. U.S. Navy officials at the Pacific Missile Range testing facility in Hawaii received Raytheon?s AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) array, which is now in preparation for live target testing in early July.
U.S. Navy Captain Seiko Okano, major program manager at Above Water Sensors (IWS 2.0) says, "the extensive testing to date has demonstrated good compliance to the radar's key technical performance parameters. The technologies are proven mature and ready for testing in the far-field range, against live targets, to verify and validate the radar's exceptional capabilities."
"Several months of testing at our near-field range facility, where the array completed characterization and calibration, have proven the system ready for live target tracking," says Raytheon's Tad Dickenson, AMDR program director. "The array was the last component to ship. With all other components, including the back-end processing equipment, delivered earlier and already integrated at the range, AMDR will be up and running in short order."
The SPY-6(V) is currently close to 80 percent complete in the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase, officials say. The system remains on track for delivery to the DDG-51 Flight III destroyer in 2019.
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