AMDR ships

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The U.S. Navy is putting the radar on all new destroyers, as well as aircraft carriers, amphibious ships and frigates – every class of ship. Some of the work is already underway at the Huntington Ingalls Industries, or HII, shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Raytheon is integrating:

  • SPY-6 (V)2 onto the future USS Richard M. McCool (LPD 29) and has completed the first sea trial.
  • SPY-6 (V)1 onto the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128).
  • SPY-6 (V)2 onto the future USS Bougainville (LHA 8).
Work has started at other shipyards, where the company is integrating:

  • SPY-6 (V)3 onto the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) at HII in Newport News, Virginia.
  • SPY-6 (V)3 onto the future USS Constellation (FFG 62) at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin.
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Maro.Kyo said:
The DOT&E documents makes it seem like the new baseline definitions for BL 9.Cx corresponds to 9.2.x for example, though I'm not sure if that's correct.
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BL 9C originally represented the Burke-class BL 9.
now with the new naming it no longer distinguishes the ship type.
 
Capthale said:
The next cruiser design I really hope they incorporate a second deck gun and multiple 30 mm guns both port and starboard
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I'd just as soon go for the full 57mm Mk110s as the "small gun", and have some airburst rounds available for busting small boats.


Cordy said:
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The Raytheon SPY-6 is a scalable radar built up with individual RMAs, radar modular assembly, two-foot by two-foot by two-foot radar that works as a radar itself, each RMA contains 24 TRMs, would i be right in thinking it has one receiver per 24 TRM/RMA???
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As I understand AESAs, each TRM has a receiver.
 
Now please give me the technology. That with photonic Oscillators gonna let my EF look trought the planet
 
CIC-TAO said:
Raytheon GaN on Diamond

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My impression maybe is part of the DARPA Technologies for Heat Removal in Electronics at the Device Scale, THREADS, program. Contracts have been placed with Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, BAES and Qorvo to develop improved gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifiers by both reducing the thermal resistance within the device and moving the heat away from high power transistors more efficiently either to increase the RF performance from same size array panel or improve the MTBF while able to maintain a channel temperature below the nominal maximum operating temperature of 225 degrees Celsius approx. 440 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Burke Flight IIIs had to upgrade their five AC plants to 300 refrigeration tons capacity from the 200 ton units in Flight IIAs needed to cool the new more powerful SPY-6 (V)I GaN radar and the new SEWIP Block III GaN EW system.
 
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+15dB is ~32x for those who were pondering it.
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When we're talking about electrical units like voltage, current, and power, it's pretty easy to remember which units use the 10log equation and which use 20log: any units related to power use 10log and the rest use 20log. However, with other units, like sound pressure level, it's not quite as obvious. Below is a list of common units and whether they use 10log or 20log when using decibel units. Also note that any units that use 10log are increased 3dB per doubling, whereas any units that use 20log are increased 6dB per doubling.
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Are Burke Flt 3 receiving SEWIPS blk3 at some point? The first ship lacks it.
 
Cordy said:
The Burke Flight IIIs had to upgrade their five AC plants to 300 refrigeration tons capacity from the 200 ton units in Flight IIAs needed to cool the new more powerful SPY-6 (V)I GaN radar and the new SEWIP Block III GaN EW system.
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And that's with access to whatever temperature the outside ocean water is at for an additional heat sink... (Of course, I got spoiled with access to 40degF/4degC water basically all the time.)
 
But as far as i could tell we dont even know how mutch improvement they have in dB. I got for V4 11-15 dB and V1 15-20dB. The 3 times the range is from a high Level Naval dude (i think as i cant remember who he was) which said it was 3x better then the original goal was.
 
kqcke for you said:
But as far as i could tell we dont even know how mutch improvement they have in dB. I got for V4 11-15 dB and V1 15-20dB. The 3 times the range is from a high Level Naval dude (i think as i cant remember who he was) which said it was 3x better then the original goal was.
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The original goal, in 2000 the Navy established the Surface Navy Radar Roadmap, which among other things called for an increased radar sensitivity to meet the needs for a BMD AMDR with the necessary target discrimination ability so as to be able to distinguish the BM missile warheads from the decoys.

The Navy chose an upgraded 10,000t Burke as the platform for the AMDR instead of the horrendously expensive Zumwalt, the maximum antenna array weight they could safely fit on a Flight III was a 14-foot, whereas to meet the spec it was originally estimated a 20-foot array was needed (a 69 RMA array) how the current 37 RMA 14-foot array SPY-6(V)1 compares to original 20-foot array not sure.

The Japanese with their ASEV destroyers with the SPY-7 have gone to 17,000t to take the necessary large radar array top weight.
 

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kqcke for you said:
But as far as i could tell we dont even know how mutch improvement they have in dB. I got for V4 11-15 dB and V1 15-20dB. The 3 times the range is from a high Level Naval dude (i think as i cant remember who he was) which said it was 3x better then the original goal was.
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This is the post in question:

The Air and Missile Defense Radar program set a requirement for the SPY-6(V)1 sensor to be 30 times more sensitive than the SPY-1. The Navy has validated that the new sensor has a decibel measurement of “+20dB” compared to the legacy radar, according to a Raytheon document approved by the Navy for public release.
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“SPY-6(V)1 is approximately 20dB more sensitive than SPY-1 -- nearly 100 times -- which translates to more than three times the original requirement,” said Scott Spence, director of naval radar systems, told Inside Defense. “SPY-6 also delivers a significant increase in range to the legacy radar.”
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Cordy said:
The original goal, in 2000 the Navy established the Surface Navy Radar Roadmap, which among other things called for an increased radar sensitivity to meet the needs for a BMD AMDR with the necessary target discrimination ability so as to be able to distinguish the BM missile warheads from the decoys.

The Navy chose an upgraded 10,000t Burke as the platform for the AMDR instead of the horrendously expensive Zumwalt, the maximum antenna array weight they could safely fit on a Flight III was a 14-foot, whereas to meet the spec it was originally estimated a 20-foot array was needed (a 69 RMA array) how the current 37 RMA 14-foot array SPY-6(V)1 compares to original 20-foot array not sure.

The Japanese with their ASEV destroyers with the SPY-7 have gone to 17,000t to take the necessary large radar array top weight.
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That diagram seems to be confusing the 24 RMA retrofit (V)4 version with the full 37 RMA (V)1 version based on my earlier post:

Having looked at the numbers, I think the dB measurements are actually factoring in the gain as well as the power, which is dependent on aperture area. Overall received power is proportional to the Powerx(Gain^2) product and Gain is proportional to area. So the log of the RMA ratio cubed x10 should give the dB increase.

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So with 24 RMA giving +15db and 37 giving +20db

10log[(37/24)^3] = 5.6.

37 RMA is +5.6dB more than 24 RMA or +20.6dB

69 RMA should theoretically be:

10log[(69/24)^3] = +13.8dB

+15dB +13.8dB = +28.8dB

Probably enough to boil the brains of enemy pilots buzzing your ship.
 
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kqcke for you said:
Why wanting to have Laser when you got Spy-6 with 69 RMA
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Zumwalt with SPY-6: now you dont need dedicated CIWS anymore!

Multifunctional AESAs have been described as being capable of brute force jamming in their operational bandwith so evolving into a HPM-like system would seem to be the logical step.
 
Forest Green said:
That diagram seems to be confusing the 24 RMA retrofit (V)4 version with the full 37 RMA (V)1 version based on my earlier post:

Having looked at the numbers, I think the dB measurements are actually factoring in the gain as well as the power, which is dependent on aperture area. Overall received power is proportional to the Powerx(Gain^2) product and Gain is proportional to area. So the log of the RMA ratio cubed x10 should give the dB increase.

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So with 24 RMA giving +15db and 37 giving +20db

10log[(37/24)^3] = 5.6.

37 RMA is +5.6dB more than 24 RMA or +20.6dB

69 RMA should theoretically be:

10log[(69/24)^3] = +13.8dB

+15dB +13.8dB = +28.8dB

Probably enough to boil the brains of enemy pilots buzzing your ship.
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The diagram isn't confusing the versions, it's from 2016 and predates Raytheon proving they surpassed AMDR's performance requirements.

There's also now an intermediate array between 37 and 69 in Navy planning documents. It's 18ft with 57 RMAs, which they are treating as the max able to fit on DDG(X) at ≈ 13,500 tons. Personally, I'd rather they stop faffing about and just design a ship that fits the 69-RMA arrays.
 
Moose said:
There's also now an intermediate array between 37 and 69 in Navy planning documents. It's 18ft with 57 RMAs, which they are treating as the max able to fit on DDG(X) at ≈ 13,500 tons. Personally, I'd rather they stop faffing about and just design a ship that fits the 69-RMA arrays.
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A 57 RMA array would be very similar in dimensions to a 69 RMA array. Removing 12 RMAs will most likely be achieved from the "diagonal" edges of the octagonal array, meaning width and height of the array are going to be the same as the 69 RMA array.
 
The MDA and USN Feb 8 carried out FTX (Flight Test Other)-23 / Stellar Sisyphus a two part test off the Hawaii coast in which it appears to be test of the new SPY-6 radar and comms with Aegis in which a C-17 launched a MRBM in mid-air that was then shot down, presume with Jack H Lucas as the first and only Flight III Burke commissioned to date with SPY-6.

 
Cordy said:
The MDA and USN Feb 8 carried out FTX (Flight Test Other)-23 / Stellar Sisyphus a two part test off the Hawaii coast in which it appears to be test of the new SPY-6 radar and comms with Aegis in which a C-17 launched a MRBM in mid-air that was then shot down, presume with Jack H Lucas as the first and only Flight III Burke commissioned to date with SPY-6.

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Yes, but it appears McCampbell (DDG-85) was the shooter, with Lucas also participating.

 
AEGIS midcourse engagements routinely use one DDG to detect/track and another to shoo the SM-3, in this case 125 with it's SPY-6 was the former and 85 was the latter.
 

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