Starting LOT-36, Raytheon will only produce the C8 & D3 variants of the #AMRAAM missile (+ any future upg). Earlier this year, US Army awarded Raytheon a contract to integrate the C8 #AMRAAM into #NASAMS which likely also means that prod. AMRAAMER's will include same hardw/sofw. 
https://twitter.com/MIL_STD/status/1564958410235265024
US Army has so far not funded integrating the Sentinel A4 #AESA with #NASAMS. This as Raytheon continues to mature #LTAMDS derived #GhostEye #AESA to support #NASAMS upgrades. Raytheon still continues to deliver Sentinel A3 #PESA radars to the Army.👇deliveries to 60ADAR (Aug22).
#GhostEye is a C-band #AESA and will support #NASAM's newly added medium range air-defense mission that is enabled by the AMRAAM-Extended Range and future medium range interceptors. It appears that Kongsberg will continue to pursue it as opposed to seeking SentinelA4 integration.
US Army meanwhile has decided to standardize its SHORAD & IAMD force around the Sentinel A4 X-band AESA radar. The A4 variant offers more than 2 times the performance of the A3, and opens up additional missions such as Counter UAS, and Counter RAM. The radar is also scalable.
US Army took delivery of the first 5 Sentinel A4's earlier this year with additional deliveries expected by EOY, and another 5 expected to be delivered in the first half of 2023. The radar will be the primary sensor for the Army's Indirect Fire Protection Capability Inc 2 .
Once #IAMD is fielded later this year, US Army will dramatically ⬆️ its ability to field Sentinel radars organically to #PATRIOT (IAMD) battalions. IAMD via #IFCN allows up to 8 Sentinel A4's (or upg A3s) per #PATRIOT battalion (which will have 4 #LTAMDS)
https://twitter.com/MIL_STD/status/1566949475221770240
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