Raytheon [RTN] expects to deliver two AN/TPY-2 radars to the United Arab Emirates during 2014, according to a company executive.
“The contract was agreed to at the end of last year and usually it’s a 30-month process to actually produce the radar,” Keith McNamara, Raytheon’s director of business development for global integrated sensors, told reporters recently during a briefing in downtown Washington.
The company announced in December it would provide AN/TPY-2 radars, associated spares, training and other services through 2018 to the UAE as the radar component to the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system, according to a company statement. This deal for the radars is worth $582.5 million and is part of the first sale of THAAD missile systems to an international customer, according to a statement.
The AN/TPY-2, Raytheon’s mobile, solid-state, phased array X-band radar, is being provided to the UAE through the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) as a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) under the Arms Control Export Act, according to a statement. The AN/TPY-2 searches, detects, tracks and discriminates threats from non-threats and delivers data to the THAAD’s fire control and communications element for engagement, according to a statement.