Raytheon Developing X-band System for ESSM Guidance

Raytheon is developing an X-band ship radar system to guide the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) to its target. The device, called SPY-5, would replace target-illuminating systems with a passive phased-array, continuous wave system theoretically able to guide 12 ESSMs to their target at the same...

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