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9,700-ton battleship with advanced combat systems, radar sets sail ahead of commissioning

A new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer recently set sail ahead of its future ...

These Naval Systems Redefined How Modern Fleets Fight at Sea

Naval warfare has changed dramatically over the past century, and the biggest shifts have rarely come from a single ship ...
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How SPY-6 radar is reshaping Navy destroyers

What’s changing: The Navy is replacing legacy SPY-1 and SPY-3 radars with SPY-6 systems on Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyers and retrofitting select older ships. Why it matters: SPY-6 offers 35× the ...
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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 ...