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DDG-51 Flight III’s Air and Missile Defense Radar Slated For Developmental Tests This Summer

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

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DDG-51 Flight III’s Air and Missile Defense Radar Slated For Developmental Tests This Summer

An artist's rendering of Raytheon's Air and Missile Defense Radar on a destroyer. (Image: Raytheon)

The centerpiece of the new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers—the AN/SPY 6V Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) by Raytheon [RTN]—is on track to begin developmental testing this summer at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, a Navy program official said Wednesday."I think we have all of the usual challenges for a system that is going through the EMD (engineering and manufacturing development) phase...but no unusual challenges,” Capt. Mark Vandroff, program manager for DDG-51 shipbuilding, said during a briefing…

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