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The Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, commonly called LTAMDS, is a radar designed to defeat advanced and next-generation threats including hypersonic weapons, or those that fly faster than a mile a second.

It’s one thing to hear a project is going well. But it’s much better to see it for yourself – and to have a chance to make it even better.

That was the thinking behind the “Soldier Touchpoint,” a September meeting of a group of Army soldiers and the Raytheon Missiles & Defense team that is building the radar, called LTAMDS, a next-generation radar designed to defeat newer threats such as hypersonic weapons.

The system is on time and on track…

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