OSPREY

MULTI-MODE SURVEILLANCE RADAR

KEY BENEFITS

• Class-leading maritime surveillance capability
• AESA-enabled small target mode (STM)
• Very high resolution, wide swath SAR Mapping
• Small radar cross section (RCS), low minimum
  detectable velocity (MDV), multi-channel moving
  target indication (MTI)
• Air-to-air surveillance
• Instantaneous multiple mode interleaving
• Difficult target detection from high altitude
• High reliability for persistent operations
• Flexible configuration, installation and integration
• Multiple fixed antennas, choice of antenna sizes
• Belly-free, obscuration-free 360° coverage
• Open standards interfaces
• Compact, lightweight LRUs

KEY FEATURES

Osprey provides a genuine multi-domain capability, with high performance sea surveillance, notably against ‘difficult targets’, land surveillance with wide swath, very high resolution ground mapping, small and low speed ground target indication, and high performance air-to-air surveillance.

These capabilities, combined with the radar’s ability to rapidly interleave modes and provide scan-independent beam steering, make Osprey ideally suited to mixed environment operations, such as in the littoral.

Osprey is a low size, weight and power (SWaP) radar system, offered with a range of antenna sizes that may include up to four fixed antennas, depending on the azimuth coverage requirement, and which leave the belly of the aircraft free for operation to and from unprepared surfaces; or for other antennas, sensors or weapon systems. It is particularly well suited to UAS operations, with very high reliability for persistent surveillance, and difficult target detection capability from high altitude, facilitating platform line of sight (LoS) communications and improved platform fuel efficiency.

Performance benefit of AESA radar

E-Scan enables simultaneous multi-domain wide area search and Target of Interest (ToI) focus, and ultrafast beam scanning to provide vastly improved clutter cancellation and superior detection performance. This performance is maintained from high altitudes typically encountered by UAS operating at the full extent of LoS data links.

Superior reliability and operational availability

At the core of the AESA radar design is the ability to tolerate individual element failure. Component failures within the array result in graceful performance degradation rather than complete system failure, delivering high operational availability when compared
with conventional radar systems.

Its high reliability and availability result in a reduced maintenance requirement and provides the option to reduce spares holding, resulting in significant cost benefits over the life of the system.

Background

Leonardo is a radar center of excellence that has designed, developed and supported radar systems for more than 65 years. More than 3000 radar systems have been supplied for manned and unmanned fixed and rotary wing aircraft in surveillance, fire control and ground attack roles.

We have extensive experience in surveillance radar and have produced more than 800 systems. Osprey is the latest addition to our family of AESA surveillance radars, which includes Seaspray 7000E, and Seaspray 7500E, and PicoSAR.