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The US Armed Forces began conducting tests as part of the LTAMDS program to create a promising ground-based multifunctional missile defense radar

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The US Army has begun conducting the first tests of anti-missile defense (ABM) radars. This was stated by Brigadier General Frank Lozano, responsible for the implementation of the LTAMDS program for the creation of a promising ground-based multifunctional radar station (radar).

LTAMDS will serve as a radar for an integrated air defense and missile defense system aimed at enhancing the power of outdated surface-to-air missile defense systems. By the decision of the Congress, by the end of this year, the US Army will include a battalion consisting of 4 radars.

It is worth noting that the American military-industrial company Raytheon was selected as a contractor for the development of the LTAMDS prototype in 2019.

According to Lozano, LTAMDS is equipped with three sensors, two of which are all–round. They allow the system to respond to threats in time by detecting them in the 360 degree range.

Thus, only after successful tests of the above-mentioned radars, which are expected to replace the Patriot air defense system radars, it will be possible to talk about establishing their serial production. This will happen no earlier than 2025.

The other 3 radars will be designed to protect Guam, the largest military base of the United States in the Pacific Ocean (the island itself is not part of the country, but is its colonial possession), as told by Douglas (Doug) Bush, Assistant Secretary of the US Army for Procurement, Logistics and Technology.

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