GERMAN SENSOR TESTED ON SPY PLANE EURO HAWK SURVEILLANCE BASED ON GLOBAL HAWK.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. said German-built electronics intelligence equipment was tested successfully aboard a U.S. Air Force RQ-4A Global Hawk unmanned spy plane. U.S. Air Force and German Ministry of Defense officials conducted the demonstration during flight tests Nov. 17 and 22 at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. , Northrop Grumman said. The test demonstrated the ability of the sensor built by German defense firm EADS EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. EADS Expeditionary Air Defense System (USMC) EADS Extended Air Defense Systems EADS Environmental Assessment Data System EADS Echelons Above Division Study to reliably disseminate information via data link to the ground station. The tests were done in preparation for a Global Hawk electronics intelligence demonstration scheduled for next spring in Germany. ``EADS and Northrop Grumman started the Euro Hawk initiative 2 1/2 years ago. We are proud to see how far this project has progressed since, and we are proud of our teams and their great work. Euro Hawk is fully supported by the U.S. and German air forces, and it will play a pivotal role in the future European intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance may refer to:
NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. air-ground surveillance program,'' said Dr. Thomas Enders, head of the EADS Defence and Civil Systems Division. The Northrop Grumman and EADS system concept for Euro Hawk is based on Global Hawk, which is produced in Palmdale, and would meet a German desire for a long-range reconnaissance and surveillance plane. Euro Hawk is being developed as a candidate to replace the Breguet Atlantic 1150 signals intelligence plane that will be phased out of the German military beginning in 2008. Euro Hawk will be designed for high altitudes and long flight times for standoff reconnaissance and surveillance. A ground station for data evaluation will be developed to meet German operational requirements (programming) operational requirements - Qualitative and quantitative parameters that specify the desired capabilities of a system and serve as a basis for determining the operational effectiveness and suitability of a system prior to deployment. . ``The Global Hawk German ELINT Noun 1. ELINT - intelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources) electronics intelligence demonstration illustrates our progress in cooperatively developing robust unmanned systems,'' said Scott J. Seymour, president of Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems. |
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