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UTAS Expands Airborne Reconnaissance Portfolio

New roles are being found for the UTAS DB-110 airborne reconnaissance system.

This image of a suburban area in Iraq taken by an RAF Tornado illustrates the prized, high-resolution area coverage that the Raptor/DB-110 sensor can provide. From this overview, an image analyst has identified and enlarged a crane and a bulldozer that might be in use by insurgent forces to create roadblocks. [UK Crown Copyright 2016]

By Chris Pocock • Defense Correspondent

June 16, 2017

The ISR and Space Systems business of UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) is here at the Paris Air Show promoting the latest upgrades to its strong-selling DB-110 airborne reconnaissance system. In its pod form, UTAS has sold this sensor to nine air forces for carriage by their F-16 fighters, and to a tenth for its F-15s. It has also been installed on the P-3 maritime patrol aircraft of Japan; on the business jets of two countries; and on the US MQ-9 Reaper UAV for two sets of trial flights. UTAS has also provided increasingly-sophisticated ground processing, exploitation and dissemination systems for the sensor from its wholly-owned facility in the UK.

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