It allows you to create a very tight beam. So, we use the received AESAs to precisely locate where an enemy threat is, be it an anti-ship missile or an enemy radar system or whatever it is, and then using that precise angle and information of where they are and where they're inbound towards us, we then use our transmit antennas to transmit that actual electronic attack waveform to attack the RF system that's a threat to us… With an AESA, one of its key advantages is you can dynamically adjust and focus your RF energy and so instead of some of the legacy systems that have been fielded for EW they use very broad beams and just broadly place a beam in a very broad space of from where the ship is.

Mike: That's a really good question… So the power of the AESA array, and there's a number of them that make up our system, the way I count it it's 16 AESAs that make up our system, and we have four facing each quadrant of the ship, to provide complete coverage, 360 degrees around the ship, and two of them are used for receive, and two of them are used for transmit.

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