That something would be the AN/SPY-7 (V)1 radar. Purpose-built to work with the Aegis, the system was recently put to the test at Lockheed Martin's Production Test Center in Moorestown, New Jersey.

Aegis Baseline 9’s hypersonic defense advantage against a MRBM target brings incredible capability that allows our warfighter ...

Raytheon said AN/SPY-1D (V) works to help the Aegis missile guidance system search and track targets, while the MK 99 fire control equipment alerts the missile control station of aerial threats.

Both the U.S. and Japan have developed and deployed missile defense networks to protect against emerging threats.

The Aegis system and SPY-1 radar provide the U.S. and allied nations with advanced surveillance, anti-air warfare and missile defense capabilities.

The system has received numerous software and hardware upgrades in recent years to improve its range, precision, networking, and intercept ability. The latest version, Aegis Baseline 10, has been ...

Lockheed Martin Corporation’s LMT business unit, Rotary and Mission Systems, recently clinched a modification contract involving the AEGIS weapon system. The award has been provided by the Naval ...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $426 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build and field the Aegis Weapon System and the integrated Aegis Combat System on three of the ...

PAC-3 MSE Integrated With Aegis Weapon System Defeats Target In Flight Test. Lockheed Martin Photo Lockheed Martin performed a successful test of its PAC-3 missile interceptor with a virtual Aegis ...

Both missiles were to be tracked by an Aegis radar system aboard a Navy ship. At the same time, another system based at Vandenberg, called a Multiple Object Tracking Radar, was to track the ICBM.

The system also includes Aegis radar-equipped ships based in Rota, Spain, an AN/TPY-2 radar station in Turkey (on alert since 2011), and another Aegis Ashore facility at the Deveselu base in Romania.

Japan last month formally decided it would expand its ballistic missile defence system with U.S.-made ground-based Aegis radar stations and interceptors in response to a growing threat from North ...