Sensors

SPOTLITE is an electro-optical system designed to pinpoint the location and sources of small arms fire.  The system can handle simultaneous, multiple fire sources, including small arms and sniper fire sources, during day and night. at long ranges and with high precision and detection probabilities. The system comprises a FLIR, CCD with continuous zoom, a Laser Range Finder, a...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is displaying the Guardian, its maritime variant MQ-9 Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), at the Paris Air Show 2011. The Guardian is flown from its home base at Cape Canaveral, Fla., to Le Bourget, France, onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17.

Unlike the larger and heavier drones that operate like manned aircraft and are bound to airfields or other complex launch and retrieval systems, small UAS are optimized to work and support operators at the tactical level. Aeronautics' Orbiter family of Mini UAS (MUAS) and Small Tactical UAS (STUAS) is designed specifically for those missions.

DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) was awarded a $124 million contract to provide Horizontal Technology Integration Second Generation Forward Looking Infrared (HTI SGF) sighting systems to the U.S. Army. These systems are used on the M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank System Enhancement Package (SEP) and M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The contract was awarded to DRS by the Network Centric Systems business of Raytheon...

AESA RAdar Datalink Following research into the past two years, an industry group including Northrop Grumman Corporation, L-3 Communications Inc. and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics demonstrated the use of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars for high-bandwidth communications. In the demonstration, electronic signals generated by the AESA radar were used to transmit imagery data transmission to an L-3 Communication's Common Data Link...

Cassidian, EADS’ military division soon to be transformed into Airbus Defense and Space) celebrated last week the delivery of the 400s Typhoons jet fighter to the customer – the German Luftwaffe. On December 4th the 400th Typhoon that received the marking ‘31+06’ at the company’s Military Air Systems Center at Manching, near Munich was the 112 Typhoon delivered to...

The EyeBall R1, developed by ODF can be used in counter terrorism operations, where it is thrown into a building, tunnel, or cave, in placements out of sight or potentially dangerous. Eyeball R1 gradually scans the scene to cover 360 degrees, transmitting the image and audio from the scene, in real-time, via wireless communication to remote and mobile display unit....

Materion Corporation (NYSE:MTRN) has been awarded a contract by UTC Aerospace Systems for AlBeMet metal matrix composite parts for its MS-177 long-range, multi-spectral imaging (MSI) sensor, to be used by RQ-4B Global Hawk.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the Israel Ministry of Defenseconcluded another series of intercept tests conducted with the Iron Dome counter-rocket defense system, the recent tests employed all the system's elements, including the Multi-Mode Radar (MMR) system, developed by IAI Elta Systems (shown on the photo at right), Tamir missile interceptors with live warheads, and battle management system, developed by MPrest Systems....

iROBOT, the developer and producer of the PacBot, demonstrated a model of the Small UGV (SUGV) currently under development for the US Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. The SUGV will weigh around 10 kg (20 pounds), compared with 22kg (48 pounds) of the current PacBot. It will carry a payload weight of about 3 kg, utilizing multiple payloads, utilizing...

The U.S. Navy pilots training on the Boeing T-45 will soon get a radar screen in their cockpits' although these radars will not be able to actually detect enemy aircraft, they will be integrated into the training mission by simulating a realistic situational picture showing real and simulated targets. The realistic radar training is part of the Virtual...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has unveiled a large autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) called BLUE WHALE designed for covert intelligence gathering in the sea and coastal waters. The AUV can perform a significant portion of the operations of a manned submarine for several weeks without the need for operators on board. It is equipped with two types of sonars, a radar, EO sensors, and a satellite communications terminal mounted on a telescopic mast.

Start < Page 4 of 9 > Automatic infrared systems can augment, and sometime replace radars in certain missions. Typical systems are the ADIR, from Elbit Systems and Spider or CEDAR from Controp. Such systems are comprised of a FLIR installed on a rotating plate, scanning a sector of up to 180 degrees, detecting suspicious targets, tracking them and triggering alerts...

The Italian Falco Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by Selex Galileo of Finmeccanica completed a series of flight tests aimed at expanding its ISR capabilities, through the integration of multiple sensors. In recent months the unmanned aircraft was flown with the PicoSAR Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The new high-resolution SAR has the ability to detect and identify, with extreme...