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Raytheon Begins Installing SPY-6 Radar On DDG-125

Wednesday, February 17th, 2021

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Raytheon Begins Installing SPY-6 Radar On DDG-125

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)

Raytheon Technologies [RTX] started installing the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar on the Navy’s new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Aegis destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), the company said on Feb. 9. The SPY-6, known as the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), aims to improve the operational performance for air and missile defense operations on Flight III destroyers. The size and requirements of the radar forced the Navy to modify the destroyers to be larger to house the…

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