Next-generation multidomain surveillance radar

SharpSight® is a next-generation multiplatform, multidomain, software-defined surveillance radar optimized for high-altitude, small-target detection for crewed and uncrewed airborne and elevated platforms, built upon more than 60 years of maritime and overland surveillance radar innovation.

SharpSight fuses the capabilities of two of Raytheon’s proven radar families – the Highly Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radar (HISAR) and the SeaVue Multi-Role Radar (SVMR) – and can be rapidly integrated on a variety of systems and is designed to meet the most challenging multimission needs, now and into the future. Its open architecture enables inexpensive, rapid upgrades, ensuring operators remain ahead of emerging threats.

Modular, scalable and software defined: SharpSight’s software-defined, modular and scalable architecture offers affordable and seamless capability upgrades to scale.

Multimission performance: SharpSight provides cost-effective, multimode radar performance across maritime, land and air mission segments:

  • Anti-surface warfare (ASuW)
  • Coastal monitoring, maritime and littoral surveillance
  • Border protection
  • Anti-piracy
  • Interdiction operations – drug trafficking, smuggling and terrorism
  • Economic exclusion zone monitoring and enforcement
  • Search and rescue
  • Long-range surveillance
  • Overland mapping and imaging
  • Environmental monitoring and biological detection

The radar’s proven detection performance coupled with its automatic identification system (AIS) enables the system to detect, track and classify over 1,000 targets, delivering a substantial increase in mission utility.

In addition, its superior small-target detection range enables platforms to operate at higher altitudes and longer ranges, ensuring greater mission endurance. 

 

Benefits

missile defense
Long range/small target detection
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Proven on multiple aircraft types
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Software-defined for easy updates
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Direct commercial sale (DCS) product
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Multimode radar
SharpSight unit display
SharpSight features an assortment of antenna apertures in different sizes and shapes to optimize platform-specific mission performance.

MQ-9B pictured with Raytheon’s SeaVue Multi-role Radar at RIMPAC in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Raytheon successfully demonstrated the SeaVue Multi-role Radar's superior long-range target detection on a GA-ASI SeaGuardian UAS at the U.S. Navy's Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) – the world's largest international maritime exercise. (Photo Courtesy: GA-ASI)

GA-ASI’s SeaGuardian

SeaVue Multi-role radar pictured on GA-ASI’s SeaGuardian flight test event on its Sonobuoy Dispensing System. (Photo courtesy: GA-ASI)

GA-ASI’s SeaGuardian

SeaVue Multi-role radar pictured on GA-ASI’s SeaGuardian flight test event on its Sonobuoy Dispensing System. (Photo courtesy: GA-ASI)

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