Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Minehunter UAVs Becoming All-Purpose Hunter-Targeters

'Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in Melbourne, FL received a $5.5 million modification to a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to add Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition and Laser Designation Functionality into the Airborne Standoff Minefield Detection System (ASTAMID) Block 1.

This Army system is similar to the Marine Corps Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis (COBRA) mine detection system in that it is mounted on a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Instead of using a multispectral video sensor, ASTAMID uses an IR sensor to detect the thermal contrast between a proud land mine and the surrounding ground, or between disturbed and undisturbed ground in the case of buried mines. It is part of the U.S. Military's Joint Countermine Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration (Joint Countermine ACTD), Phase I and its broader roadmap for mine countermeasures.'

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Posted by Darren at April 8, 2005 01:05 AM | More from UAV News |