USS Gerald R. Ford Was Still Struggling With Its Dual Band Radar Prior To Deployment
The dual-band radar (DBR) aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the ship’s primary sensor system, ...
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U.S. Approves Standard Missile-6 Sale for Japan’s Aegis Destroyers
While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...
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Navy Identifies First Destroyer to Receive Full Set of DDG MOD 2.0 Upgrades
“These ships, just like the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, were purpose-built around the SPY-1 radar and the Aegis combat system. And now I am tasked with ripping out that legacy radar and ...
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Guam gets US first Aegis Ashore system that can kill multiple missiles at once
including the Aegis AN/SPY-1 radar, Command, Control, and Communication systems, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) systems, MK ...
S. Korea Navy launches task fleet command
South Korea’s military has launched a naval task fleet command that operates Aegis destroyers equipped with a radar system ...
Trump revives push for space-based interceptors in ‘Iron Dome for America’ edict
Trump’s order does not give any estimate of the costs of such a system, but several hundreds of billions of dollars would ...
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Japan Approves New Missile Defense System
Japan currently relies on destroyers equipped with advanced Aegis radar systems and the land-based PAC3 system to intercept ballistic missiles. If a missile is fired toward Japan, an Aegis ...
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Lockheed Martin Tracks Radar for Spain’s F-110 Frigate
The SPY-7 radar will enable F-110 frigates in the Spanish navy to perform critical search and detection duties.