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Sentient Creates Team for ViDAR Launch in UAE
The Visual Detection and Ranging pod for the AW139 optimizes search and rescue operations, helping to save lives and lower mission costs.
Sentient Vision Systems has designed its self-contained aerial reconnaissance (SCAR) Pod with visual detection and ranging (ViDAR)—shown here on an AW139—for the UAE market.
Sentient Vision Systems has designed its self-contained aerial reconnaissance (SCAR) Pod with visual detection and ranging (ViDAR)—shown here on an AW139—for the UAE market.

Australian search and surveillance specialist Sentient Vision Systems has teamed with Austria's Airborne Technologies and UAE- and UK-based aircraft integration specialist company Phoenix Aerospace to develop the ViDAR (visual detection and ranging) SCAR (self-contained aerial reconnaissance) Pod for the UAE market. Sentient designed the pod for installation on Leonardo's AW139 helicopter.