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Army

New Cooling Unit Enables Deployment-Ready Missile Defense Radar, Raytheon Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

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New Cooling Unit Enables Deployment-Ready Missile Defense Radar, Raytheon Says

Raytheon's [RTN] 14-month early delivery of a crucial new cooling equipment unit (CEU) will give the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) a deployment-ready AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, company officials said. The AN/TPY-2 is a high resolution, mobile, rapidly deployable X-band radar that provides long-range acquisition, precision track, and discrimination of all classes of ballistic missiles. It is integral to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) MDA is developing. With the early-delivery CEU combined with an MDA contract for AN/TPY-2 logistics…

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