Raytheon’s AMDR executes Test

Raytheon Company’s Air and Missile Defence Radar acquired and tracked a ballistic missile test target during the radar’s first dedicated Ballistic Missile Defence exercise at the US Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Kauai, Hawaii. This follows a series of successes for AN/SPY-6, including the tracking of integrated air and missile defence targets of opportunity, satellites and aircraft.

Since installation at the PMRF in May 2016, AMDR has tracked targets of increasing complexity, demonstrating that the radar is meeting its performance requirements. In October 2016, AN/SPY-6 first tracked these multiple satellites, hundreds of miles above the earth, from search and acquisition through their orbits. In the following month, the radar executed its first integrated air and missile defence track by simultaneously tracking aircraft and satellites. Most recently, in conjunction with a Standard Missile 3 Block IIA SFTM-01 flight test, AN/SPY-6 executed an engineering exercise where it searched for, acquired and tracked a medium range ballistic missile target, from launch through flight.