Raytheon Company announced Wednesday it was recently awarded an $8.6 million contract to provide the APS- 134LW radar hardware to Toshiba, for subsequent delivery to the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF). The radar system will be installed on Japan's U-125A aircraft, a repurposed Hawker 800 (file photo of type, right).

"The APS-134LW and the entire SeaVue line are high performance, long proven and accurate maritime surveillance radar," remarked Bill Manson, Raytheon's Japan program manager for Maritime Surveillance Radar, in a company release. "We are pleased to continue this partnership with Toshiba and assure mission success for the JASDF international customer."

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) will deliver seven receiver-exciter-synchronizer-processors and four antenna gimbals under a fixed price, follow-on production contract from Toshiba. The work will be managed and manufactured at the company's McKinney, TX location.

The APS-134LW radar is part of Raytheon's SeaVue family of maritime and littoral surveillance mission systems. As such, the APS-134LW provides high performance capabilities in navigation, weather, long-range search, and small target detection to support JASDF's SAR (search and rescue) mission applications.

Raytheon's co-product partnership with Toshiba provides the APS-134LW as the basis of what JASDF calls the APQ-2 Radar. Toshiba is supplying the radar transmitter and antenna reflector for the APQ-2, which is installed on the JASDF U-125A. Raytheon also supports Toshiba with yearly spares, repairs and technical support.

"JASDF requires a quality, dependable radar system for its search and rescue efforts," said Mr. Yoshihiro Sano, manager of Air Defense and Defense R&D Marketing Department, Toshiba Corporation. "Raytheon's APS-134LW offers the systems reliability and capability our customer needs to be successful in such a vital mission."

FMI: www.raytheon.com, www.jda.go.jp/jasdf/asdfE.htm