Navy missile intercepts target using Army’s new missile defense radar

A U.S. Navy Normal Missile-6, guided by the U.S. Military’s new missile protection radar and command and management system, intercepted a goal in a current check throughout Valiant Protect 24 within the Indo-Pacific, Raytheon introduced in a July 18 assertion.

Within the check involving each bodily {hardware} and simulation, the Military’s Decrease-Tier Air and Missile Protection Sensor, or LTAMDS, simulator offered menace monitoring knowledge, together with operational SM-6 engagement management software program, to the service’s Built-in Battle Command System, or IBCS, developed by Northrop Grumman.

The profitable check is the most recent reflection of the Pentagon’s want to see the companies function seamlessly in battle.

IBCS, the brains of the Military’s air and missile protection structure, handed the info to provoke a launch command and information the SM-6 to a “profitable” intercept, in keeping with the assertion.

Raytheon mentioned the check proves that Navy missiles can work throughout the Military’s built-in air and missile protection structure.

Such a check additionally “confirms a viable possibility” for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Tom Laliberty, firm president of land and air protection techniques, mentioned.

“LTAMDS matched with SM-6 provides an distinctive functionality to defeat more and more numerous and complicated threats with a multi-mission missile that flies so far as the radar can see – offering for lengthy vary Military and Joint built-in air and missile protection,” Laliberty mentioned.

The trouble to combine the Navy’s long-range, anti-air missile that has a floor mode with Military missile protection techniques may additional builds out a layered missile protection structure.

The Military can also be utilizing the SM-6 and Raytheon-built Tomahawk missiles paired with a vertical launch system for its Mid-Vary Functionality, or MRC, weapon quickly developed and deployed to slot in the Military’s fires portfolio between its Precision Strike Munition, designed to hit targets over 500 kilometers away, and its ground-launched hypersonic missiles.

The service deployed the MRC to the Philippines earlier this 12 months as a part of its annual Salaknib train with the island nation in April.

LTAMDS will function the radar within the Military’s future Built-in Air and Missile Protection system. The Military fielded a LTAMDS battalion of 4 sensors in December as required by Congress, however the sensor remains to be in prototyping section because the service works to combine a back-end array to present the sensor a 360-degree monitoring functionality – an improve from the present Patriot sensor’s potential to see all the way in which round.

The Military plans to conduct an operational evaluation within the first quarter of FY25 that can result in an Engineering and Manufacturing Improvement choice in FY25, a preliminary step towards eventual serial manufacturing.

The check of the techniques collectively can also be important in guaranteeing the air and missile protection structure deliberate for Guam will work. The Military’s MRC launchers, LTAMDS and IBCS will make up a part of the structure together with Aegis weapon techniques geared up with SM-3 and SM-6 missiles.