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Attacking enemy cruise missiles, fighter jets, helicopters and longer-range high altitude ballistic missiles all present substantial threats to Navy surface ships, especially when multiple attacks arrive simultaneously. By and large, defending against incoming ballistic missiles and air and cruise missiles requires separate defensive systems … until now.
A new family of SPY-6 radar systems is being quickly expanded by the U.S. Navy to incorporate a much wider swath of the fleet. The strongest, longest-range and most sensitive variant of the SPY-6, the v1, is the one that has now been built into the Navy’s first-of-its-kind DDG 51 Flight III next-generation destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas; a
What Makes the U.S. Navy’s Powerful SPY-6 Radar Matters
The radar comes with different blocks so the size can be adjusted for each different class of warship.
Attacking enemy cruise missiles, fighter jets, helicopters and ballistic missiles all present substantial threats to Navy surface ships, especially when multiple attacks happen at the same time. By and large, defending against incoming ballistic missiles and incoming air and cruise missiles required separate defensive systems until now.
A new family of SPY-6 radar systems are now being quickly expanded by the U.S. Navy to incorporate a much wider swath of the fleet. The strongest, longest-range and most sensitive variant of the SPY-6, the v1, has been built into the Navy’s first of its-kind DDG 51 Flight III next-generation destroyer. That warship is the future USS Jack H. Lucas and, according to a report from Naval Sea Systems Command, two of four Air and Missile Defense Radars (AMDR) arrays have now been installed i
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one of in the victims shoulder to shoulder with navy commander. tim jurvis. i saw him drop in front of me. he was shot in the head. reporter: finally at 12:14, police announced they fatally shot the gunman identified by the fbi as aaron alexis, a former navy man who most recently worked for the navy as an i.t. civilian contractor. the navy yard staying on lockdown more than six hours. survivors told to hide in place. some barricading themselves in top-secret secure closets. others under their desks. navy captain mark vandroff was one of those evacuated from his office. we heard gunfire, and we looked up, and there were two bullet holes in the top of the conference room. reporter: police are starting to understand the how of what happened here but not the why. no clues to the motive. only saying that so far no indication of terrorism. jim avila, abc news, washington. our coverage continues from the scene near the navy yard with abc s karen travers.
to shoulder with navy commander tim jurvis. i saw him drop in front of me. he was shot in the head. reporter: finally at 12:14, police announced they fatally shot the gunman identified by the fbi as aaron alexis, a former navy man who most recently worked for the navy as an i.t. civilian contractor. the navy yard staying on lockdown more than six hours. survivors told to hide in place. some barricading themselves in top-secret secure closets. others under their desks. navy captain mark vandroff was one of those evacuated from his office. we heard gunfire, and we looked up, and there were two bullet holes in the top of the conference room. reporter: police are starting to understand the how of what happened here but not the why. no clues to the motive. only saying that so far no indication of terrorism. jim avila, abc news, washington. our coverage continues from the scene near the navy yard with abc s karen travers. good morning. what are investigators saying