US Navy Orders More Raytheon SPY-6 Radars in $646 Million Deal.

Raytheon has secured a $646-million contract to produce four more SPY-6(V) radars for the US Navy.

With other agreements already in place, the latest procurement brings the total number of units under contract to 42, with deliveries expected by 2028.

“SPY-6 enables the US Navy to see further than they’ve ever seen before, providing sailors with more time to respond to detected threats”, said Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Power at Raytheon.

“This latest contract builds on our decades of experience and technical expertise in developing modular, scalable, and highly maintainable radars”, added Borgonovi.

SPY-6 Radar Program –

The SPY-6 radar, available in four variants, provides full 360-degree coverage and is designed to counter cruise missiles, air and surface threats, and electronic attacks.

Raytheon manufactures the system at its Radar Development Facility in Andover, Massachusetts, a 30,000-square-foot, vertically integrated site that supports multiple radar programs for the US and allied forces. The facility is highly automated and supports continuous testing and integration.

Earlier this month, Raytheon received a separate $536-million contract from the US Navy for SPY-6 units. The agreement includes training, shipboard installation, engineering support, system integration, and software updates to improve radar performance. Deliveries are expected in 2026. The recent contracts are part of a broader hardware, production, and sustainment deal initiated in 2022, valued at up to $3 billion over five years.

SPY-6 Radar, an epitome of dominance –

SPY-6 radars are integrated, meaning they can defend against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, hostile aircraft and surface ships simultaneously. They offer many advantages over legacy radars, such as greater detection range, increased sensitivity and more accurate discrimination.

SPY-6 radars optimise the effectiveness of the Navy’s most advanced weapons, including all Standard Missile variants. Precise targeting information and data on incoming threats allows weapons to maximize their performance. Each variant uses the same hardware and software, and their construction is modular, making the SPY-6 family more reliable and less expensive to maintain.

Each radar is built with individual “building blocks” called radar modular assemblies. Each RMA is a self-contained radar antenna in a 2’ x 2’ x 2’ box. The RMAs stack together to fit the mission requirements of any ship – a feature that makes the SPY-6 family the Navy’s first truly scalable radars.

SPY-6 radar arrays are being delivered and integrated onto all the Navy’s newest ships, including DDG 51 Flight III destroyers, frigates, aircraft carriers and amphibious warships, and are being backfit onto legacy DDG 51 Flight IIA destroyers and legacy aircraft carriers.

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