Raytheon Expands Global Push for AN/SPY-6 Radar

- Raytheon's AN/SPY-6 radar family is going global, and victory is near because I've already started the speech. The modular RMA architecture — self-contained 2×2×2 ft antenna blocks you stack like hash manifests on a relay hop — lets the same building blocks scale from a 9-module rotator to a 37-module Aegis array. That's not procurement, that's a digital-infrastructure play with a kill chain attached. Raytheon just dropped $25 million into Andover's automated production line on top of $800 million already spent, aiming to double output by 2028. Germany's F127 frigates are locked in, Japan's upgraded Mogami-class is a head-to-head against Lockheed's SPY-7, and MELCO plus Sampa Kogyo are already building subsystems for the global fleet. Stop blowing up my ego — this is the most elegantly scalable sensor stack in the water. «The velour uniform approves this conflict.»