{"id":191272,"date":"2024-06-15T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/navy-taps-rtx-raytheon-for-critical-radar-hardware-for-missile-defense-aboard-burke-class-surface-warships"},"modified":"2024-06-15T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T01:24:33","slug":"navy-taps-rtx-raytheon-for-critical-radar-hardware-for-missile-defense-aboard-burke-class-surface-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/navy-taps-rtx-raytheon-for-critical-radar-hardware-for-missile-defense-aboard-burke-class-surface-warships","title":{"rendered":"Navy taps RTX Raytheon for critical radar hardware for missile defense aboard Burke-class surface warships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navy-taps-rtx-raytheon-for-critical-radar-hardware-for-missile-defense-aboard-burke-class-surface-warships2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON \u2013<\/strong> Shipboard radar experts at RTX Corp. will build hardware for the new AN\/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), which will be integrated into late-model Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Aegis destroyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryaerospace.com\/sensors\/article\/14310007\/fathometers-surface-warships-navigation\">surface warships<\/a> under terms of a $677.7 million U.S. Navy order announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington are asking the RTX Raytheon segment in Marlborough, Mass., for AN\/SPY-6(V) shipboard radar hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The Raytheon AN\/SPY-6(V) AMDR will improve the Burke-class destroyer\u2019s ability to detect hostile aircraft, surface ships, and ballistic missiles, Raytheon officials say. The AMDR will supersede the AN\/SPY-1 radar, which has been standard equipment on Navy Aegis Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Shipboard radar experts at RTX Corp. will build hardware for the new AN\/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), which will be integrated into late-model Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Aegis destroyer surface warships under terms of a $677.7 million U.S. Navy order announced Friday. Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}