SAR - AW101 radar

May 6, 2016

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Leonardo Reveals New Lightweight Surveillance Radar Italy's Leonardo group (the new name for Finmeccanica) is marketing a multimode surveillance radar that electronically scans 360 degrees without using a “spinning” antenna. The company says the new product, named Osprey, is the world’s first lightweight e-scan system with no moving parts. The first radar has already flown on the first of 16 AW101 Merlins destined for search and rescue duties with the Royal Norwegian Air Force. The company has secured two more undisclosed customers in the U.S., for fixed-wing applications.  The X-band Osprey is a development of the Seaspray series of maritime radars (including e-scanning versions) that have been widely sold from Leonardo’s Edinburgh, UK facility. But the Osprey processor also incorporates algorithms from the company’s Vixen air-to-air and PicoSAR air-to-ground radars. The Edinburgh location is now part of the Airborne and Space Systems Division of the mainly Anglo-Italian company that is being renamed Leonardo. Read More