Live Tracking Test Demonstrates SPY-7 Capability and Scalability
The test’s tracking of a satellite target is one of several programme developments illustrating SPY-7’s capacity to evolve and meet wider integrated air and missile defence (IAMD) threats.
Mike Koch, Lockheed Martin’s European Mission Systems programme manager, said at the briefing:
“On 13 December 2024, we successfully achieved our first live radar track with the SPY-7(V)2 radar at our ASIC [Aegis-SCOMBA Integration Center] facility in Moorestown, NJ,”
SCOMBA is Spain’s Navantia Sistemas designed-and-built combat management system (CMS).
In mid-2024, SPY-7 completed critical design review, enabling the company to begin full-rate production while continuing to build, integrate, and test the engineering development model (EDM) demonstrator array and radar at Moorestown, said Koch.
“The first live track is a very important event for any first-of-class radar,” Koch explained. “It’s where tactical hardware and software are joined and operated to successfully track live airborne targets of interest.”