RTX’s Raytheon completes installation of first SPY‑6(V)4 array at Wallops Island test site
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RTX’s Raytheon completes installation of first SPY‑6(V)4 array at Wallops Island test site
Raytheon has installed the first land-based SPY-6(V)4 radar array at Wallops Island, Virginia, commencing land-based testing ahead of the backfit deployment on USS Pinckney (DDG 91). Raytheon press release Raytheon, an RTX business, has delivered and installed the first SPY-6(V)4 radar array at Surface Combat Systems Center at Wallops Island in Virginia, marking a major ... The post RTX’s Raytheon completes installation of first SPY‑6(V)4 array …
Raytheon Installs First SPY‑6(V)4 Array at Wallops Island Test Site - Seapower Magazine
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Raytheon has delivered and installed the first SPY-6(V)4 radar array at Surface Combat Systems Center at Wallops Island in Virginia, marking a major milestone for the U.S. Navy’s Flight IIA Destroyer modernization effort and the SPY-6 backfit program. The Wallops site, a land‑based test facility situated over an open-water environment, will support extensive testing of the radar and its power and combat system interfaces ah…
Raytheon installs first SPY-6(V)4 radar at Wallops Island, advancing USS Pinckney upgrade and Navy destroyer backfit programme
The land-based site provides an open-water environment for evaluating the radar before shipboard installation. Testing will cover the radar’s dedicated power system and interfaces with the Navy’s combat systems. Initial testing is scheduled to begin later this year and continue through mid-2028. The work will support installation aboard USS Pinckney (DDG 91), the first destroyer selected to receive SPY-6(V)4. “By leveraging the Wallops test site…
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