The Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) -- in a seminal event for the service’s decade-long effort to field a next-generation, 360-degree radar -- detected a cruise missile target and guided a Patriot interceptor to destroy the threat during a live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. On Nov. 16, LTAMDS used its primary sector array to detect, track and classify an air-breathing threat while tied into the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System...
