( Editor’s note : this story was updated on July 12 to note the planned flight test is the first quarter of calendar year 2024, not fiscal year 2024.) Lockheed Martin and the Navy conducted a successful ground test of a prototype datalink that allowed an Army Patriot guided-missile interceptor -- the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement -- to communicate with a Navy SPY-1 radar, validating design of the communication device and clearing the project to advance toward a planned flight...
