The Navy’s new Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar, or EASR, has passed its preliminary design review, or PDR.
“The PDR followed several EASR milestones completed as planned on the development schedule, including the combined Systems Requirements and System Functional Reviews, and the Integrated Baseline Review,” according to a Raytheon news release.
“The PDR validated Raytheon’s scaled design leveraging the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar, configured into a rotating and a fixed face variant to match the missions of the multiple ship classes,” the company said. “EASR is built on Radar Modular Assembly technology which has been matured through development — and recent test successes — of AN/SPY-6 for the DDG 51 Flight III destroyers. Each RMA is a self-contained radar in a 2’x2’x2′ box. These individual radars can integrate together to form arrays of various sizes.”
EASR will replace the Volume Search Radar for the CVN 78 class of aircraft carriers, and the AN/SPS-48 and AN/SPS-49 radars for numerous other ship classes.
Navy radar passes review
