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The SPY-6 Radar Is Turning the Arleigh Burke Destroyer Into a Missile Hunter

SPY-6 is the most advanced radar ever installed on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. SPY-6 Radar on a Destroyer. Recently, ...
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Co-Captain Allows Ships to Share Important Navigational Data

All data is anonymized. Gross says that a ship’s movements, timing, or route can reveal valuable information. “By anonymizing ...
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Leonardo DRS Wins $236M Navy Contract for Anti-Ship Missile Defense Radar Production

Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has won a potential $235.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce, test and deliver AN/SPQ-9B radar systems. The Department of Defense said Tuesday Naval Sea Systems ...
Defense One

The double-edged global ship tracking system

The tracking systems merchant vessels rely on to navigate their routes are the same ones Houthi groups use to target them. But turning off the systems isn't a simple solution. “The vast bulk of the ...
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The Navy’s Third Arleigh Burke-Class “Flight III” Destroyer Is Almost Ready

The new destroyer is named for longtime Alaska senator Ted Stevens, a strong supporter of the US Navy and Marine Corps and an unintentional early Internet icon.
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Carrots, death rays and passing ships. This is the origin story of the word radar

The nation's aviation infrastructure is again under scrutiny, following a series of paralyzing communications and radar outages at some of the country's busiest airports. On Sunday, systems at the ...