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Every next-gen Navy ship will defend against ballistic missiles and other threats with the same radar — the SPY-6

The ability of the SPY-6 family of radars to meet today’s new threats is due to both its modular and scalable hardware and its software-defined backbone.

By Breaking Defense on November 30, 2022 9:07 am
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The SPY-6 S-band radar built by Raytheon Missiles & Defense will defend against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonics, hostile aircraft, and surface ships simultaneously, while offering many advantages over legacy radars, such as greater detection range, increased sensitivity, and more accurate discrimination.

It is the radar of choice for the Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyer, upgraded Flight IIA destroyers, the under-development Constellation class guided-missile frigate, and the Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

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