May 29, 2025, 6:15 am
Hypersonic weapons are being seen as the next big thing in modern warfare.
But they are technologically very hard to develop.
Very few nations possess hypersonic weapons and even fewer have the capability to defend against them.
The US military has taken a key step in hypersonic weapon defense.
Raytheon has announced that it has delivered the first upgraded radar for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) which is capable of tracking hypersonic missiles to the Missile Defense Agency.
As per Jon Norman, Raytheon’s vice president for Air and Space Defense Systems Requirements and Capabilities, the new version of AN/TPY-2 has a longer range and can provide targeting coordinates to other missile defense interceptors beyond just the US Army’s THAAD batteries.
In this video, Defense Updates analyzes how upgraded AN/TPY-2 radar will make THAAD a potent counter to hypersonic weapons ?
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Chapters:
0:00 TITLE
00:11 INTRODUCTION
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01:45 RADAR is critical for THAAD
03:45 THE UPGRADED RADAR
06:05 ANALYSIS
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