Osprey
Multi-mode Surveillance Radar
The Osprey multi-mode surveillance radar provides second-generation active electronically scanned array (AESA) surveillance capability as the primary sensor on airborne assets to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
A scalable design fulfills the surveillance requirements of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) through strategic ISR platforms of users around the world. Osprey operates in the most demanding roles for fixed and rotary wing applications, bringing together wide azimuth and elevation electronically scanned (E-Scan) fixed antenna(s) with a compact processor and multi-channel receiver.
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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 altitudes, facilitating platform line of sight (LoS) communications and improved platform fuel efficiency.
- 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