AN/SPY-1

Original component

Updated component

History

The AN/SPY-1 radar is an passive electronically scanned radar system and one of the key components of the AEGIS System. The SPY-1 was first installed on the test ship USS Norton Sound in 1973 and entered active service in 1983 on CG-47 Ticonderoga.While the first ships with the SPY-1 radar have already been decommissioned, new ships with the latest variants of these radars are still being ordered.

Used on

• CG-47 class
• DDG-51 class and deratives
• Hobart class
• Kongo class
• Atago class
• Sejong the Great class
• Alvarando de Bazan class
• Nansen class
• CGN-9 AEGIS upgrade proposal
• CSGN 1974
• CSGN 1976
• CSGN Mk 2
• CGN-42
• CGBL
• DG/AEGIS
• DDV 9
• DDV 8
• DDV 4
• DDV 5
• DDV 6
• Arleigh Burke Aviation Strike Cruiser Concept
• Gibbs & Cox International Frigate
• various never build designs

Affiliated systems

• AEGIS System
• AN/SPS-49

Part description

There are 2 parts on this page:

• the original component as that can be found on almost every shipbucket drawing with these radars. The part has sideviews, quarter views, top views and front view drawn.
• An updated component drawing showing more detail and the differences between the different SPY-1 variants. Of each variant, sideview, quarter view, front view are included. Of the SPY-1A, the belowdecks and top view are also included.

Note that the smaller SPY-1F and K arrays are not on this page yet.

See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SPY-1