7 Fast Facts About the Navy's Newest Radar - AMDR will help keep the world a safer place

Meet AMDR, the 14-foot-tall radar with a sensitive side:

7 Fast Facts About the Navy's Newest Radar AMDR will help keep the world a safer place Share Raytheon is building the U.S. Navy's next-generation integrated air and missile defense radar, AMDR , which will significantly increase the ability of ships to detect and counter ballistic missiles – one of the world’s fastest-growing threats – as well as other dangers in the air and on the sea. The system is advancing through development and is on target for the 2nd DDG-51 Flight III destroyer. Here are seven fast facts about this novel new radar: 1. It snaps together like building blocks The system is built with individual ‘building blocks’ called Radar Modular Assemblies. Each RMA is a self-contained radar in a 2’x2’x2’ box. They stack together and are time- and phase-synchronized to form any size radar aperture to meet the mission needs of any size ship, making AMDR the Navy’s ...

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