Telephonics has announced today that the US Navy has conducted an exercise to demonstrate several anti-surface warfare (ASW) concepts of operation using an MH-60S Sierra helicopter in conjunction with a Fire Scout Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The company made the announcement 14 May, 2012.
The exercise included the use of Telephonics’ multi-mode, maritime surveillance radar on the MH-60S. The company said that the demonstration took place at the Chesapeake, MD Test Range, and it highlighted the ability of the radar to ‘rapidly perform wide-area surveillance and to automatically detect and track surface contacts over wide areas’.
The radar is designed to provide helicopter crew with a surface surveillance picture, so that targets of interest can be classified using the high resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imagery from the radar and to direct the Fire Scout to specific contacts of interest for identification with its on-board electro-optic/infra-red (EO/IR) sensor.
Telephonics explained that these EO/IR images were also linked back to the Sierra via an L-3 Communication Systems West VORTEX data link providing them with valuable tactical situational awareness. Additionally, the MH-60S linked both radar information (Tracks, ISAR, and SAR (synthetic aperture radar) imagery) and EO/IR full motion video, again via the VORTEX data link, to the Patuxent River Surface/Aviation Interoperability Laboratory (SAIL).
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