Raytheon Develops Technology To Help Aircraft Protect Ground Forces
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has authorized Raytheon Company to demonstrate target recognition technology designed to increase protection for ground forces without compounding risk to an aircraft stalking enemies who threaten those forces.
First in a laboratory and then aloft, the company expects to show how its Air-to-Ground Radar Imaging II program would permit aircraft at a safe distance to detect, track and target hostile forces in motion on the ground.
The laboratory demonstration is expected in autumn 2008, followed by a flight next spring aboard a Raytheon test aircraft.
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