Raytheon LTAMDS (Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor) continues to detect, track, and intercept complex targets in live fire tests.
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Press Release, White Sands Missile Range, 11 December 2024: Raytheon, an RTX business, announced that US Army air defence soldiers successfully used the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, to guide Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptors to defeat cruise and ballistic missile surrogates.
“LTAMDS continues to successfully pass each hurdle of the US Army’s rigorous testing programme demonstrating its readiness for initial fielding,” said Tom Laliberty, president of Land & Air Defense Systems at Raytheon. “In this latest test, US soldiers operated LTAMDS to successfully detect, track and support engagement of a complex set of threats.”
This LTAMDS live-fire event is part of the US Army’s operational assessment required before the program enters full-rate production. The transformational 360-degree radar integrated with the Integrated Battle Command System, or IBCS, passed tracked data, while guiding PAC-3 interceptors to surrogate ballistic and cruise missile targets.
The LTAMDS programme is executing to an aggressive schedule, with six radars rotating through simultaneous testing and integration at multiple Raytheon and Army test locations. The programme is expected to achieve Milestone C, the official transition from development to production, in second quarter of FY2025.
More than a dozen countries are requesting information and receiving briefings on LTAMDS. In August 2024, Raytheon was awarded a US Army contract valued at more than $2 billion to deliver eight radars for the US and Poland. With this Foreign Military Sale, Poland is the first international customer to add LTAMDS to its air and missile defence architecture.
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