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Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)
The Highly Capable, Truly Scalable Radar
The Air and Missile Defense Radar – now officially designated as AN/SPY-6 – is the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense radar. It is currently planned to be deployed on the DDG-51 Flight III destroyer.
The radar significantly enhances the ships’ ability to detect air and surface targets as well as the ever-proliferating ballistic missile threats.
Meet the Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar
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AMDR provides greater detection ranges and increased discrimination accuracy compared to the AN/SPY-1D(V) radar onboard today’s destroyers.
The system is built with individual ‘building blocks’ called Radar Modular Assemblies. Each RMA is a self-contained radar transmitter and receiver in a 2’x2’x2’ box. These RMAs stack together to fit the required array size of any ship, making AMDR the Navy’s first truly scalable radar.
This advanced radar comprises:
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Reliability and Affordability
AMDR’s performance and reliability are a direct result of more than 10 years of investment in core technologies, leveraging development, testing and production of high-powered Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors, distributed receiver exciters, and adaptive digital beamforming. AMDR’s GaN components cost 34% less than Gallium Arsenide alternatives, deliver higher power density and efficiency, and have demonstrated meantime between failures at an impressive 100 million hours.
AMDR has a fully programmable, back-end radar controller built out of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) x86 processors. This programmability allows the system to adapt to emerging threats. The commercial nature of the x86 processors simplifies obsolescence replacement – as opposed to costly technical refresh/upgrades and associated downtime – savings that lower radar sustainment costs over each ship’s service life.
AMDR has an extremely high predicted operational availability due to the reliable GaN transmit/receive modules, the low mean-time-to-repair rate, and a very low number of Line Replaceable Units. Designed for maintainability, standard LRU replacement in the RMA can be accomplished in under six minutes – requiring only two tools.
Scalable. Capable. Reliable. Affordable.
The Air and Missile Defense Radar is expected to meet the Navy’s current and future mission requirements – and will be ready to protect against the threats of today and tomorrow.
Raytheon: Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)
The Highly Capable, Truly Scalable Radar
The Air and Missile Defense Radar – now officially designated as AN/SPY-6 – is the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense radar. It is currently planned to be deployed on the DDG-51 Flight III destroyer.
The radar significantly enhances the ships’ ability to detect air and surface targets as well as the ever-proliferating ballistic missile threats.
Meet the Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar
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AMDR provides greater detection ranges and increased discrimination accuracy compared to the AN/SPY-1D(V) radar onboard today’s destroyers.
The system is built with individual ‘building blocks’ called Radar Modular Assemblies. Each RMA is a self-contained radar transmitter and receiver in a 2’x2’x2’ box. These RMAs stack together to fit the required array size of any ship, making AMDR the Navy’s first truly scalable radar.
This advanced radar comprises:
- S-band radar – a new, integrated air and missile defense radar
- X-band radar – a horizon-search radar based on existing technology
- The Radar Suite Controller (RSC) – a new component to manage radar resources and integrate with the ship’s combat management system
- Scalable to suit any size aperture or mission requirement
- Over 30 times more sensitive than AN/SPY-1D(V)
- Can simultaneously handle over 30 times the targets than AN/SPY-1D(V) to counter large and complex raids
- Adaptive digital beamforming and radar signal/data processing functionality is reprogrammable to adapt to new missions or emerging threats
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Explore the advantages of our Air and Missile Defense Radar with this interactive. Click through the individual categories or give the center cube a spin!
Reliability and Affordability
AMDR’s performance and reliability are a direct result of more than 10 years of investment in core technologies, leveraging development, testing and production of high-powered Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors, distributed receiver exciters, and adaptive digital beamforming. AMDR’s GaN components cost 34% less than Gallium Arsenide alternatives, deliver higher power density and efficiency, and have demonstrated meantime between failures at an impressive 100 million hours.
AMDR has a fully programmable, back-end radar controller built out of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) x86 processors. This programmability allows the system to adapt to emerging threats. The commercial nature of the x86 processors simplifies obsolescence replacement – as opposed to costly technical refresh/upgrades and associated downtime – savings that lower radar sustainment costs over each ship’s service life.
AMDR has an extremely high predicted operational availability due to the reliable GaN transmit/receive modules, the low mean-time-to-repair rate, and a very low number of Line Replaceable Units. Designed for maintainability, standard LRU replacement in the RMA can be accomplished in under six minutes – requiring only two tools.
Scalable. Capable. Reliable. Affordable.
The Air and Missile Defense Radar is expected to meet the Navy’s current and future mission requirements – and will be ready to protect against the threats of today and tomorrow.
Raytheon: Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)