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Navy Planning To Upgrade Old Destroyers with SPY-6 Radars

Navy Planning To Upgrade Old Destroyers with SPY-6 Radars
Raytheon's rendering of AMDR on a DDG-51 Flight III destroyer. (Image: Raytheon)

The Navy is studying how to backfit older Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Flight IIA destroyers with a variant of the new AN/SPY-6 radar, officials said Wednesday. “We’re working hard – it’s in the budget for the start of [FY] ’21, that we’ll work toward a backfit solution for Flight II Alphas. But working through the time phase and which ships and all those kinds of things with OPNAV and working through what the right answer is,” Capt. Seth Miller, DDG-51 class…

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