SPY-6 radar array set up – Image ⋆ Electronics Weekly

Raytheon has put in the primary SPY-6 radar array, as a part of a backfit programme for US navy destroyers. The SPY-6(V)4 radar array, to be exact.

It options 4 array faces – every with 24 RMAs (self-contained radar modular assemblies) – offering 360-degree situational consciousness. It’s enormous – do take a look at the video beneath for a way of scale and the robotics concerned.

You possibly can learn extra in regards to the SPY-6 radar array on the corporate web site.

Wallops Island

The placement is the Floor Fight Methods Heart at Wallops Island in Virginia.

The Wallops website is a land‑based mostly check facility located over an open-water surroundings. It, will help intensive testing of the radar and its energy and fight system interfaces forward of set up on USS Pinckney.

“By leveraging the Wallops check website, we’ll be capable of combine SPY‑6(V)4 with its devoted energy system earlier than it reaches the ship, lowering the quantity of testing wanted on DDG 91,” mentioned Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Energy at Raytheon.

“Meaning much less time within the shipyard, extra time devoted to the mission, and a smoother path for future backfit ships.”

It guarantees considerably improved vary and sensitivity in comparison with the radar it replaces, in keeping with Raytheon.

SPY-6(V)4 is one among 4 variants within the SPY-6 household of radars, and is the one variant to backfit Flight IIA Destroyers. Preliminary testing will start later this yr and proceed by mid‑2028.

The completed result’s beneath.

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