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Official: DDG-51 Successfully Tested AMDR 14 Times

Friday, January 18th, 2019

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Official: DDG-51 Successfully Tested AMDR 14 Times

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The manager of the Navy’s DDG-51 program said last week the Raytheon [RTN] AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radars (AMDR) going on new Block III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are proceeding well in testing. Capt. Casey Moton, the DDG-51 class program manager, said at the annual Surface Navy Association symposium on Jan. 16 that testing on the SPY-6 radar has gone “very well” and the system has successfully performed in 14 ballistic missile defense tracking engagements so far. The system has…

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