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Thursday, June 03, 2010

DDG 1000 Could Get New Missile-Defense Radar

DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyerThe Pentagon's decisions to eliminate half of a new radar system for the U.S. Navy's DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers - and delay the first of the ships by a year - are not, as many surmised, a result of cost growth or poor program performance.

Instead, they are an effort to get a new, even more advanced and capable radar into the new ships.

The new radar is the Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), a system currently in the early stages of development. The Navy plans to fit the radar, which will be designed from the start to handle ballistic missile defense, into new Flight III versions of its venerable DDG 51-class destroyer. The first Flight III ship is to be ordered in 2016.

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