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Air Force Official Discusses 21st Century ISR Challenges
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass: In an environment marked by ever-increasing threats, Airmen must enhance an already-sharp focus on information gathering and sharing, a top Air Force official said during a forum held June 10 in Burlington, Mass. Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, the Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, [...]
MC-12 flies first combat mission
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq: The Air Force’s newest intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft flew its first combat sortie June 10 over Iraq. The MC-12 Liberty, assigned to the 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, arrived in Iraq June 8 and took off from Joint Base Balad at approximately 2:30 p.m. local time for a four-hour mission. “This [...]
DINGO armoured vehicles equiped with Ground Surveillance Radar
The German Armed Forces will be equipped with a new kind of ground surveillance radar (BÜR – Bodenüberwachungsradar) for detecting movements on the ground and at low altitudes with a precision unmatched in the world. On May 19 the first of two system demonstrators were handed over to the German Federal Office of Defence Technology [...]
EADS Supplies New Type of Ground Surveillance Radar
EADS Defence & Security (DS) will equip the German Armed Forces with a new kind of ground surveillance radar (BÜR – Bodenüberwachungsradar) for detecting movements on the ground and at low altitudes with a precision unmatched in the world. As the company announced on Tuesday, Defence Electronics (DE), an integrated activity of DS, today handed [...]
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Completes Flight Testing
BETHPAGE, N.Y.: In the blue skies over St. Augustine, Fla., Northrop Grumman’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye System Development and Demonstration program aircraft recently reached its 1,000th hour of flight testing. The aircraft, currently in flight testing at Northrop Grumman’s East Coast Manufacturing and Flight Test Center, continues to successfully meet, or exceed, all major program and [...]
Medium Range Air Defense Radars for Finland and Estonia
ThalesRaytheonSystems has been selected to deliver Medium Range Air Surveillance Systems including 14 Ground Master 403 radar systems, 12 for Finland and two for Estonia, and a Long Range Air Identification and Surveillance Radar System Mid Life Upgrade for five Teresa 22XX radars for Finland, which were previously supplied by Thales. The order value for [...]
Raytheon Acquires Rights to KillerBee UAV
TUCSON, Ariz.: Raytheon Company has purchased rights to the technology and name of the KillerBee unmanned aircraft system from Northrop Grumman. Under the agreement, Raytheon will submit the KillerBee for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Small Tactical UAS and Tier II competition. “We’re competing for STUAS Tier II but that is only the beginning,” [...]
Patria to Integrate Finnish Air Defence and Surveillance System Projects
The Finnish Ministry of Defence has today announced the supplier of medium range air defence missile system to be the Norwegian-American Kongsberg-Raytheon. Medium range radars will be supplied and long-range radars modernised by the French Thales-Raytheon Systems Company. These projects will be realised together with Finnish industrial partners. In the air defence missile project Patria [...]
India Launches Surveillance Satellite
Giving a big boost to its defence surveillance capabilities, India today successfully launched an all-weather Israeli-built spy satellite that will help security agencies keep a vigil on the country’s borders. Indian space agency ISRO’s workhorse, PSLV-C12 rocket soared majestically into a clear sky at 6.45 am from the spaceport in Sriharikota and placed its first [...]
