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Home» News»Raytheon building additional SPY-6 radars for US Navy’s DDG-51 Flight III
Two SPY-6(V)1 arrays
Two SPY-6(V)1 arrays in Raytheon’s Radar Development Facility in Andover, Massachusetts. Currently in LRIP, an RFP for full rate production is expected to come out in 2020. Raytheon picture.

Raytheon building additional SPY-6 radars for US Navy’s DDG-51 Flight III

Raytheon will build two additional shipsets of SPY-6 radars under a $250 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The company is now contracted to deliver a total of nine radar shipsets to DDG-51 Flight III destroyers.

Xavier Vavasseur 23 Dec 2019

SPY-6 is a family of next generation, integrated air and missile defense radars that scale to meet the mission requirements of any ship.

“SPY-6 delivers significantly enhanced range and sensitivity [compared to legacy sensors], and gives geographically dispersed ships the ability to share – and act on – sensor data in ways never before possible. This radar gives the Navy unprecedented operational flexibility to defend against ballistic and cruise missiles as well as advanced surface and air threats.”


Scott Spence, senior director of Naval Radar Systems at Raytheon

Since its inception in January 2014, the SPY-6 program has met all 20 milestones, ahead of or on schedule. The radar has a track record of performance, demonstrating its multi-mission capabilities against an array of single and multiple, simultaneous targets throughout the Navy’s extensive testing program.

Now in production at Raytheon’s advanced Radar Development Facility, AN/SPY-6(V) remains on schedule for delivery to the first DDG 51 Flight III, the future USS Jack H Lucas (DDG 125). The first delivery of AN/SPY-6(V)2 to LHA-8, the America Class Amphibious Assault Ship, is on plan for 2021.

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DDG 51 Flight III scale model on HII stand at SNA 2019.

The Flight III configuration brings improved capability and capacity to perform Anti-Air Warfare and Ballistic Missile Defense in support of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense mission.

The Flight III design contains modifications from the earlier DDG 51 class, to enable the SPY-6 radar, in association with Aegis Baseline 10, which includes larger electronically scanned arrays and the power generation and cooling equipment required to operate the powerful new radar. 

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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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