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Navy Moving Toward Interfacing New AMDR Radar With Aegis

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

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Navy Moving Toward Interfacing New AMDR Radar With Aegis

U.S. Navy photo of the USS McCampbell (DDG-85)

The Navy has begun working through the specifications required to introduce the new Air Missile Defense Radar to the Aegis air and ballistic missile defense combat system deployed on Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers, the service’s program manager for Aegis said Wednesday.Capt. Tom Druggan said that since the preliminary design review (PDR) of the AMDR hardware was completed in the last year, determining the interface specifications to integrate the AMDR into Aegis is the next step.So far, the process has gone…

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