The new radar being developed for the Navy's guided-missile destroyers has completed its first ballistic missile tracking test, the service announced last week. During the March 15 test off the coast of Hawaii, dubbed "Vigilant Hunter," the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) "searched for, detected and maintained track on a short-range ballistic missile target," according to a March 30 Navy statement. The event was the first "in a series" of planned BMD flight tests for the new radar...
