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General Atomics SAR/GMTI Radar Completes The Day With Sky Warrior UAV Tests Successfully.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) informed that its Lynx Block 30 Synthetic Aperture Radar/Ground Moving Target Indicator (SAR/GMTI) radar has completed two successful test flights on a Sky Warrior Block 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in support of the planned Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) deployment of the first four Sky Warrior aircraft under the U.S. Army Extended Range/Multi-Purpose (ER/MP) UAV Program.
The flights were conducted in March. Numerous SAR (spot and stripmap) images were taken at various ranges and resolutions via GA-ASI’s CLAW sensor control and exploitation software in the Army’s One System Ground Control Station (OSGCS); Change Detection products were calculated and displayed. What is more, the GMTI mode was used to locate and track moving objects in real-time. Since completing the delivery of the original eight Lynx II radars to the Army last year on the radar System Design and Development (SDD) program, GA-ASI has preformed numerous upgrades to the radar in its continuing commitment to enhance capabilities and boost performance. Contractor flights with the Block 30 radar configuration have shown SAR and GMTI performance consistent with the threshold level demands in the ER/MP Capabilities Production Document (CPD). An agreement was awarded to GA-ASI on May 1st to update the eight Lynx II radars to the Block 30 configuration in support of Quick Reaction Capability 1 (QRC1). The Lynx Block 30 radar provides the all-weather precision capability to detect time-sensitive targets and offers a long-range, wide-area surveillance capability that can provide high-resolution SAR imagery at slant ranges well beyond effective EO/IR range. It also incorporates a broad area GMTI scanning capability to detect moving vehicles, and can cross-cue to an EO/IR payload via the CLAW payload control software.