SSDS: Quicker Naval Response to Cruise Missiles

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Right now, in many American ships beyond the top-tier AEGIS destroyers and cruisers, the detect-to-engage sequence against anti-ship missiles requires a lot of manual steps, involving different ship systems that use different displays. When a Mach 3 missile gives you 45 seconds from appearance on ship’s radar to impact, however, seconds of delay can be fatal. Seconds of unnecessary delay are unacceptable.

Hence Raytheon’s Ship Self Defense System (SSDS):

• SSDS: Current Versions
• Contracts & Key Events, 2008 – Present [updated]
• Additional Readings
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  2012-08-24 04:51:05

  Source: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/ssds-quicker-naval-response-to-cruise-missiles-04699/

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