AMDR ships

[Josh_TN]

AEGIS midcourse engagements routinely use one DDG to detect/track and another to shoo the SM-3, in this case 125 with it's SPY-6 was the former and 85 was the latter.

What is reason for this? Is it to test the data sharing between platforms as well as the radar? Is DDG-85 a non ABM vessel?

 

[TomS]

What is reason for this? Is it to test the data sharing between platforms as well as the radar? Is DDG-85 a non ABM vessel?

To test data-sharing. Because there are lots of engagement scenarios where the optimum geometry puts the sensor and the shooter in different places.

 

[TomS]

SPY-6(V)4 :

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846463780471144531

View: https://x.com/kosukegoto2013/status/1846463780471144531?s=46&t=5THFve96Abhx7VANdlTzrg

As a reminder, because I had to look it up: SPYU-6(v)4 is the 24-RMA retrofit version for the DDG-51 Mod 2.0 retrofit.

 

[Moose]

As a reminder, because I had to look it up: SPYU-6(v)4 is the 24-RMA retrofit version for the DDG-51 Mod 2.0 retrofit.

Reposting since it got lost in the forum Snap:
Raytheon/RTX is hoping to convince Japan to upgrade their existing DDGs using the v4. I haven't seen an official "JMSDF DDG 2.0" program mooted yet, but it seems pretty likely they're thinking about such an upgrade for the same reasons USN is doing it.