유도탄 육군의 레이더로 표적에 유도된 SM-6

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밸리언트 실드 24 훈련에서 SM-6가 미육군의 하층 대공 및 미사일 방어 센서( LTAMDS;  Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor )의 유도를 받아 목표물을 요격하는 데 성공했다고 레이시온이 7월 18일 발표했습니다. 

하드웨어 및 시뮬레이션이 포함된 이 테스트에서 LTADMS 시뮬레이터가 노스롭 그루먼의 SM-6 교전제어 소프트웨어와 함께 IBCS에 표적 추적 데이터를 제공하고, IBCS가 SM-6를 성공적으로 통제해 성공적으로 요격을 실시했다고 하네요. 

기사상으론 실표적 요격은 아니고 레이더가 가상 표적 신호를 생성해 IBCS에 이걸 보내고 IBCS가 SM-6 (지상발사형? 수상함에 탑재된 미사일이라는 얘긴 없네요.)를 발사한 것 같습니다. 

LTADMS는 패트리어트 시스템 용으로 개발된 지상배치 레이더같은데 앞에 메인 어레이가 하나, 뒤에 서브 어레이가 두 개가 달려 있네요. 360도 탐지가 가능하다고 합니다. 메인 어레이는 기존 패트리어트 포대의 레이더와 크기는 거의 비슷하지만 출력은 두 배 이상 높아졌다고 하네요. 

Navy missile intercepts target using Army’s new missile defense radar (defensenews.com)

Navy missile intercepts target using Army’s new missile defense radar

Navy missile intercepts target using Army’s new missile defense radar

By Jen Judson

 Jul 19, 2024, 04:11 AM

In recent exercise Valiant Shield, Raytheon demonstrated a successful intercept of a target using an Standard Missile-6 using tracking and targeting data from the Army's Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense System and Integrated Battle Command System. A previous live-fire test involving the Navy destroyer John Paul Jones launching a SM-6 . (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

A U.S. Navy Standard Missile-6, guided by the U.S. Army’s new missile defense radar and command and control system, intercepted a target in a recent test during Valiant Shield 24 in the Indo-Pacific, Raytheon announced in a July 18 statement.

In the test involving both physical hardware and simulation, the Army’s Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, simulator provided threat tracking data, along with operational SM-6 engagement control software, to the service’s Integrated Battle Command System, or IBCS, developed by Northrop Grumman.

The successful test is the latest reflection of the Pentagon’s desire to see the services operate seamlessly in battle.

IBCS, the brains of the Army’s air and missile defense architecture, passed the data to initiate a launch command and guide the SM-6 to a “successful” intercept, according to the statement.

Raytheon said the test proves that Navy missiles can work within the Army’s integrated air and missile defense architecture.

Such a test also “confirm‎s a viable option” for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Tom Laliberty, company president of land and air defense systems, said.

“LTAMDS matched with SM-6 adds an exceptional capability to defeat increasingly diverse and complex threats with a multi-mission missile that flies as far as the radar can see – providing for long range Army and Joint integrated air and missile defense,” Laliberty said.

The effort to integrate the Navy’s long-range, anti-air missile that has a surface mode with Army missile defense systems could further builds out a layered missile defense architecture.

The Army is also using the SM-6 and Raytheon-built Tomahawk missiles paired with a vertical launch system for its Mid-Range Capability, or MRC, weapon rapidly developed and deployed to fit in the Army’s fires portfolio between its Precision Strike Munition, designed to hit targets over 500 kilometers away, and its ground-launched hypersonic missiles.

The service deployed the MRC to the Philippines earlier this year as part of its annual Salaknib exercise with the island nation in April.

LTAMDS will serve as the radar in the Army’s future Integrated Air and Missile Defense system. The Army fielded a LTAMDS battalion of four sensors in December as required by Congress, but the sensor is still in prototyping phase as the service works to integrate a back-end array to give the sensor a 360-degree tracking capability – an upgrade from the current Patriot sensor’s ability to see all the way around.

The Army plans to conduct an operational assessment in the first quarter of FY25 that will lead to an Engineering and Manufacturing Development decision in FY25, a preliminary step toward eventual serial production.

The test of the systems together is also critical in ensuring the air and missile defense architecture planned for Guam will work. The Army’s MRC launchers, LTAMDS and IBCS will make up part of the architecture along with Aegis weapon systems equipped with SM-3 and SM-6 missiles.

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Army and Navy programs combine to defeat complex threat

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, July 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At Valiant Shield 24, Raytheon, an RTX business, demonstrated a simulated complex missile engagement leveraging the U.S. Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, and Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, IBCS, launching the U.S. Navy's premier, long-range effector, Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).

Using track data from Army LTAMDS simulators and operational SM-6 engagement control software interfaced with IBCS, the test demonstrated the successful integration of these existing, respective Army and Navy program capabilities. This proves the feasibility of SM-6 as an additional effector within the Army IAMD architecture including IBCS and LTAMDS. The experiment, which used a combination of physical systems' hardware and simulation, demonstrated the effective detection and identification of an in-coming threat, target and track data transfer, launch command, and the successful guide to missile intercept.

"The successful test confirm‎s a viable option for INDOPACOM by demonstrating SM-6 integrated with IBCS and LTAMDS," said Tom Laliberty, president of Land & Air Defense Systems at Raytheon. "LTAMDS matched with SM-6 adds an exceptional capability to defeat increasingly diverse and complex threats with a multi-mission missile that flies as far as the radar can see – providing for long range Army and Joint integrated air and missile defense."

Valiant Shield is a bi-annual exercise that brings allies and partners together to develop, test and train in a relevant and realistic environment. Government and industry bring technologies, designs and solutions with the common goal to increase the joint-combined force's ability to plan, communicate and conduct complex, multi-domain operations throughout the Indo-Pacific.

About Raytheon
Raytheon, an RTX business, is a leading provider of defense solutions to help the U.S. government, our allies and partners defend their national sovereignty and ensure their security. For more than 100 years, Raytheon has developed new technologies and enhanced existing capabilities in integrated air and missile defense, smart weapons, missiles, advanced sensors and radars, interceptors, space-based systems, hypersonics and missile defense across land, air, sea, and space.

About RTX
With more than 185,000 global employees, RTX pushes the limits of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect our world. Through industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon – we are advancing aviation, engineering integrated defense systems, and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges. The company, with 2023 sales of $69 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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The radar that Raytheon is building for the U.S. Army is known as the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS.

Now, as the first in a family of radars Raytheon is calling GhostEye®, it is being developed for the U.S. Army’s LTAMDS program. It is a radar designed to defeat advanced and next-generation threats, including hypersonic weapons, or those that fly faster than a mile a second.

Nothing goes unseen

LTAMDS has three antenna arrays – a primary array on the front, and two secondary arrays on the back. They work together, detecting and engaging multiple threats from any direction at the same time. 

Powerful performance

The primary array is about the same size as the array for the Patriot air and missile defense system, but it has more than twice the power. The radar is designed for the U.S. Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense system, but it will also preserve existing military customers' investment in the Patriot system.

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Leveraging the advancements of the U.S. Army’s LTAMDS, Raytheon Missiles & Defense has separately, yet concurrently, developed GhostEye MR, a medium-range radar that maximizes the capabilities of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS.

The radar that Raytheon Missiles & Defense is building for the U.S. Army is known as the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and is the first in a family of radars Raytheon is calling GhostEye®.

The radar that Raytheon Missiles & Defense is building for the U.S. Army is known as the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and is the first in a family of radars Raytheon is calling GhostEye®.

LTAMDS is the latest generation air and missile defense radar, providing exceptional capability against proliferating and increasingly stressful threats, such as hypersonic missiles. 

LTAMDS is the latest generation air and missile defense radar, providing exceptional capability against proliferating and increasingly stressful threats, such as hypersonic missiles.

LTAMDS is the latest generation air and missile defense radar, providing exceptional capability against proliferating and increasingly stressful threats, such as hypersonic missiles.

Leveraging the advancements of the U.S. Army’s LTAMDS, Raytheon Missiles & Defense has separately, yet concurrently, developed GhostEye MR, a medium-range radar that maximizes the capabilities of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS.

The radar that Raytheon Missiles & Defense is building for the U.S. Army is known as the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and is the first in a family of radars Raytheon is calling GhostEye®.

The radar that Raytheon Missiles & Defense is building for the U.S. Army is known as the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and is the first in a family of radars Raytheon is calling GhostEye®.

LTAMDS is the latest generation air and missile defense radar, providing exceptional capability against proliferating and increasingly stressful threats, such as hypersonic missiles. 

LTAMDS is the latest generation air and missile defense radar, providing exceptional capability against proliferating and increasingly stressful threats, such as hypersonic missiles.

LTAMDS is the latest generation air and missile defense radar, providing exceptional capability against proliferating and increasingly stressful threats, such as hypersonic missiles.

Leveraging the advancements of the U.S. Army’s LTAMDS, Raytheon Missiles & Defense has separately, yet concurrently, developed GhostEye MR, a medium-range radar that maximizes the capabilities of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS.

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메인 어레이는 적이 올 것으로 예상되는 방향으로 두고, 작은 서브 어레이는 혹시나 돌아서 뒤통수를 칠 수도 있는 것에 대비하려는 것이겠죠?

그리고 "no longer requires outrigger stabilizing legs"라고 하네요. 빨리 접고 튈 수 있는 것인지...?

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2019/10/17/heres-who-will-build-the-armys-new-missile-defense-radar/

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아래 사진에 아우트리거가 보이고, 기사에 첨부된 사진에도 탑재차량을 지지하는 아우트리거가 보이는데 별도의 안정화 없이 단순한 지지대이고 고정은 별도의 잭으로 하나 보네요. 말씀대로 빨리 접고 튀어서 대레이더 미사일 피하는 게 목적일 듯 합니다.

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아웃트리거 여부보다 여전히 견인이라는 게 눈에 띄네요. 미국인들은 여전히 방공무기의 자주화에 성의가 모자랍니다. (ㅂㄷㅂㄷ)

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목이 말라야 우물을 파는데 목이 마른 적이 없으니 ㅋㅋㅋ