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TPY-2: Discriminating The Threat

The TPY-2 can be forward-deployed to improve detection capabilities against ballistic missile threats, or used as part of the THAAD system.

By David Donald • Contributor - UK

June 18, 2013

Raytheon’s AN/TPY-2 X-band mobile radar is one of the United States’ most powerful assets in the defense against ballistic missiles. That threat is an increasingly worrisome one: according to unclassified U.S. Missile Defense Agency data the number of such missiles outside the control of the U.S., NATO, Russia and China is around 6,300. That figure is forecast to grow to nearly 8,000 in the next decade.

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