03 April 2023
by Michael Fabey
With the new radar suite equipment installed on carrier
John F Kennedy
, Raytheon plans to bring the radar online later in 2023.
(Michael Fabey)
With all the hardware installed on aircraft carrier USS
John F Kennedy
(CVN 79) for its SPY-6(V)3 radar suite in 2022, Raytheon is preparing to start bringing the radar online in the fourth quarter of 2023, Mike Mills, Raytheon senior director of naval radars, told
Janes
.
“We’ll move into where we hand that system over to the testing team [and] they’ll start testing between combat management system and actual radar,” Mills told
Janes
during a 27 March interview in advance of the Navy League Sea-Air-Space 2023 Global Maritime Exposition, which is being held at National Harbor, Maryland, from 3 April.
Raytheon will be conducting equipment checkouts, powering up the system, and checking different parameters, he said.
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