The Navy's pitch to Congress to embrace unmanned technology is changing, analysts say, to one that embraces the 'evolutionary' rather than the 'revolutionary.'
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Huntington Ingalls Industries, like others in the defense base, is making a play for the unmanned systems market. Its moves these past two years have been aggressive.
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Justin Katz on August 02, 2021 at 11:15 AM
A SPY-6 radar while undergoing testing at Wallops Island in Virginia. (Raytheon)
WASHINGTON: Two variants of the SPY-6 radars have completed a series of tests at the Navy’s Wallops Island test facility in Virginia, which prime contractor Raytheon says was necessary to keep the program’s development on track.
The testing, which occurred earlier this year, was focused on demonstrating new functionalities for both variants and will allow testing to advance to multi-functional operations and combat management system integration.
As one of the Navy’s premier air and missile defense capabilities, the development of the radars will be critical for not only traditional warships, but potentially unmanned vessels as well
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