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And we have a type designation for AMDR: SPY-6
http://www.seapowermagazine.org/stories/20150115-spy-6.html
SPY-6 Designation Assigned to Raytheon’s AMDR
By RICHARD R. BURGESS, Managing Editor
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy has assigned a military designation to the next-generation shipboard Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR).
Speaking Jan. 15 to an audience at the Surface Navy Association National Symposium, RDML Jon A. Hill, the Navy’s program executive officer for integrated warfare systems, used the designation SPY-6 to refer to the Raytheon-built AMDR that will be installed on Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers.
The SPY-6 features an S-band and an X-band radar, as well as a Radar Suite Controller. Raytheon officials said the new radar is 30 times more sensitive than the current SPY-1, which was built by Lockheed Martin. The SPY-6 will enable greater detection capabilities against aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, and can handle 30 times as many targets simultaneously as the SPY-1.
Hill said that the AMDR testing was going well, with “live hardware up and transmitting.”
http://www.seapowermagazine.org/stories/20150115-spy-6.html