Lockheed Martin Boasts SPY-7 Radar Going Well, Says Superior To SPY-6

摘要

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is pushing full steam ahead on its scalable AN/SPY-7 S-band galliumnitride-based radar in four countries and boasted its superiority to the RaytheonTechnologies [RTX] AN/SPY-6 radar in a recent interview.SPY-7 is based on the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), procured by the MissileDefense Agency (MDA) to bolster the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s abilityto track ballistic missile threats at Clear Air Force Station in Clear, Alaska. LRDR aims to bothbetter track missiles and discriminate among warhead-carrying vehicles and decoys and othernon-lethal objects.