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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Short-Range Capability For SPY-1 Radar

Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated a new Extreme Short Range (ESR) mode for its family of SPY-1 naval radars that will extend the coverage radius to support helicopter approach control, enhances small surface target detection and performance in the littorals, a company official said.

Lockheed Martin had been considering the idea of an ESR mode for its SPY- 1 radar for a while, Lee Gross, program manager for the Norwegian Frigate program, told Defense Daily yesterday.

"We decided to do some testing at our production test facility in Moorestown. We just took an available unit that just happened to be the last of the Norwegian configured ships...that is the SPY-1F," he said. "We took that and altered that to see if we could implement and demonstrate the capability of the ESR mode."

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