Raytheon’s Air and Missile Defense system successfully tracks multiple missile targets

Raytheon’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) recently demonstrated its ability to acquire and track multiple threat-representative targets simultaneously during its third dedicated flight test held at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.

“The speed, range, trajectory, and complexity of multiple targets proved no match for AN/SPY-6 – it acquired and tracked them all,” Tad Dickerson, Raytheon’s Director of the AN/SPY-6(V) Program, said. “It was truly gratifying for our government-Raytheon team to see the culmination of our engineering efforts in action, and achieve our third straight success.”

Specifically, the AN/SPY-6(V) successfully searched for, detected, and tracked a short-range ballistic missile target as well as multiple anti-ship cruise missile targets from launch and throughout their flights. Raytheon said the test demonstrated the radar’s sensitivity and resource management, which is a critical multi-mission capability to extend the battlespace and safeguard the fleet from multiple threats.

According to U.S. Navy Captain Seiko Okano, the radar was specifically designed to handle ballistic missiles and cruise missiles simultaneously and that it successfully demonstrated its performance in a series of increasingly difficult test events and is on track to deliver advanced capability to the Navy’s first Flight III Destroyer.

The most recent test follows a similar ballistic missile test flight in July, where AMDR demonstrated its ability to acquire and track a long-range missile target from launch through flight.