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Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training has completed the installation of a first SLQ-32(V) shipborne electronic warfare (EW) system upgraded under Block 2 of the US Navy's (USN's) Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP).
According to the company, the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge received the SEWIP Block 2 system in July for operational testing. The Block 2 implementation has received the in-service designation AN/SLQ-32(V)6.
Established in 2002, the SEWIP programme encompasses a set of incremental upgrades for the legacy SLQ-32 EW system. Originally developed by Raytheon, and fielded from the late 1970s onwards, SLQ-32 is a family of shipborne EW outfits providing detection, analysis, threat warning, and (in some variants) electronic attack functionality.
