Kacey Roberts
Raytheon, an RTX business, has completed the 5th live-fire testing round of its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, an active electronically scanned array radar designed to counter airborne threats such as manned and unmanned aircraft, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and hypersonics.
RTX said Monday that the latest demonstration showed the LTMADS’ ability to acquire and track a tactical ballistic missile flying at high speed and at a long range, pass the track data to the Integrated Battle Command System and guide a PAC-3 missile to intercept.
Tests will continue throughout the rest of 2024, with the program expected to surpass the development stage and shift to production phase in the second quarter of 2025.
Tom Laliberty, president of land and air defense systems at Raytheon, commented, “The progression of the LTAMDS program has been remarkable – from a sense-off and contract award in 2019, successful testing in 2023, to the program’s planned entry into production early in 2025 – that is unprecedented for a new development program.”
