Perhaps timed to upstage a rival’s looming in-service milestone, Raytheon has spotlighted a demonstration of a unique feature of its developmental active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.
The company’s APG-79 AESA, under development for the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block 2, completed a test to validate that the aircraft can use the radar’s ground-mapping mode to identify targets on the ground, feed their co-ordinates to a Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munition precision-guided kit-equipped weapon, and hit the target.
The test clears one of the final developmental hurdles before the APG-79 can enter the operational evaluation phase early next year, and is a reminder that the radar is the only multi-mode AESA in production for US forces, says Raytheon. The US Navy’s first Block 2 Super Hornet squadron is due to enter service in late 2006.
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