Raytheon, an RTX business, announced the successful completion of the first flight test of its PhantomStrike radar on its Multi-Program Testbed aircraft in Ontario, California. During the test, PhantomStrike successfully tracked several airborne targets and accurately mapped the terrain.
PhantomStrike is a fully air-cooled, fire-control radar designed to provide long-range threat detection, tracking, and targeting. At nearly half the cost of a typical fire control radar, it delivers superior radar capability due to its faster, more agile digital beam, advanced target detection, and resistance to jamming.
Bryan Rosselli, president of Advanced Products and Solutions at Raytheon, stated: "The threat environment is evolving, and this test demonstrates how PhantomStrike can make enhanced situational awareness available to a broader set of our partners and allies – offering unparalleled performance and potential U.S. weapons integration – at an affordable price. This next-generation radar dramatically changes how we identify and respond to threats."
PhantomStrike is a gallium nitride (GaN) powered radar designed for a range of platforms, including uncrewed and light-attack aircraft, fighter jets, helicopters, and ground-based towers. It harnesses the fire control power of a fighter in its lightest form factor ever – weighing nearly half of a modern active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.
Production of the radars takes place in Forest, Mississippi; Tucson, Arizona; and Scotland, with support from Raytheon UK.
