What is SPY-7?
SPY-7 is the world’s most advanced radar technology that can detect, track and engage sophisticated ballistic missile and advanced air threats, while engaging multiple targets simultaneously with proven interceptors.
As a modular, scalable radar, SPY-7 is a superior technology that provides several times the performance of traditional SPY-1 radars, being fully compatible with the Aegis Combat System.
SPY-7 is interoperable with major radars and defense platforms, as the unique open architecture design enables country platforms to evolve in real time and outpace future threats.
Fully Scalable
SPY-7 technology can be configured for various applications, while allowing for rapid and efficient insertion of new capabilities and threats.
Multi-Mission Capable
As a true multi-mission radar, SPY-7 technology provides security across domains, including integrated air and missile defense, anti-aircraft warfare, ballistic missile defense, anti-surface warfare, hypersonic defense and space domain awareness.
Technologically Proven
SPY-7 technology is fully operational in Clear, Alaska and has completed multiple live fire exercises in operationally relevant environments.
Seamlessly Interoperable
SPY-7 technology allows for new capabilities and techniques to be inserted rapidly and efficiently, providing warfighters with the most technically advanced solutions that the mission requires.
What is SPY-7?
Who develops the SPY-7 radar?
How is SPY-7 different from other radars?
What capabilities make SPY-7 unique?
How is SPY-7 being utilized around the world?
How does TPY-6 relate to SPY-7?
SPY-7 is the world’s most advanced radar technology that can detect, track and engage sophisticated ballistic missile and advanced air threats, while engaging multiple targets simultaneously with proven interceptors.
Lockheed Martin develops the SPY-7 radar and offers significant industrial development opportunities in regions with the capability.
The SPY-7 radar is the world’s most advanced radar technology and boasts a three-fold improvement in performance compared to current systems. As the latest generation of software-defined digital radar, SPY-7 is designed to be easily upgradeable, allowing for rapid and efficient insertion of new capabilities and techniques.
Lockheed Martin’s SPY-7 radar is the only radar that utilizes “Polarization Diversity” to see, or not see, things to fulfill its mission. By leveraging this technology, SPY-7 can detect and discriminate complex threats with unparalleled precision, enabling simultaneous engagement of multiple targets and empowering warfighters to respond swiftly and decisively to emerging threats.
SPY-7 technology is being utilized for Japan's Aegis System Equipped Vessel, Spain's F-110 Multi-Mission Frigate, Canada's River-class Destroyer, and the United States' Long Range Discrimination Radar and Guam Defense System's TPY-6 Radar.
Our TPY-6 radar is built on the same cutting-edge radar technology as SPY-7. It uses the common Subarray Suite (SAS) radar building blocks as LRDR and all of our SPY-7 programs. Formally named the “AN/TPY-6,” where the “T” denotes the “Transportable” nature of the system according to the U.S. DoD nomenclature (The “S” in SPY-7 is for “Water” or “Sea-based.”)
