The GhostEye® radar is an advanced medium-range air and missile defense system.
Raytheon’s GhostEye is a highly mobile 360-degree surveillance and fire control sensor designed to detect, track and identify a wide variety of threats. Among them: cruise missiles, drones, fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. It is adaptable to multiple missions, including integrated air and missile defense, counter-UAS and defense of critical infrastructure, such as air bases.
GhostEye integrates with the NASAMS® system
GhostEye is the future sensor for NASAMS, a highly adaptable medium-range air defense solution. Raytheon has produced and supported NASAMS in partnership with Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace for more than 30 years.
GhostEye will provide increased range and altitude coverage that will expand the defended-area capabilities of NASAMS. Its extended range also maximizes the capabilities of the family of Raytheon effectors employed by NASAMS, including the AMRAAM® missile or AMRAAM® -ER missile.
Advanced technology
GhostEye leverages commonality with the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, that Raytheon is building for the U.S. Army.
Both sensors share a baseline of advanced technologies, including active electronically scanned array, or AESA – which boosts detection, targeting and tracking – and military-grade gallium nitride, or GaN – which strengthens the radar signal and enhances its sensitivity for longer range, higher resolution and increased capacity.
The open architecture design of LTAMDS and GhostEye enables technology adaptations to counter new and evolving threats.
