GA-ASI Completes Successful First Flights of Lynx Radar on Sky Warrior UAS
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announced 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 UAS 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) UAS 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. In addition, the GMTI mode was used to detect and track moving objects in real-time.
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