The U.S. Navy\u2019s new guided missile destroyer, USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) successfully launched at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on June 4, 2021. Raytheon Missiles & Defense is working with the shipbuilder to integrate the AN\/SPY-6(V)1, also called SPY-6, integrated air and missile defense radar onto the ship. (Header Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The U.S. Navy\u2019s new high-tech destroyer has made its first triumphant splash \u2013 and it has a powerful new radar on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, is working with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to integrate four SPY-6 radar <\/a>arrays onto the USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). The ship is the first in a class of guided missile destroyers known as Flight III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a long journey and partnership with the Navy to get to this point \u2013 refining the solution\u2026building, delivering and now integrating these systems to help protect our servicemen and women,\u201d said Scott Spence, program area director for naval radars at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SPY-6 is a family of advanced naval radars that can track enemy jets and cruise and ballistic missiles while resisting interference, like noise from rough seas. It can see farther and react faster than any deployed radars, and it can more accurately discriminate between threats and non-threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n