New Small Wide Area Sensor in Development

摘要

Logos Technologies is developing a new ultra-small wide-area motion imagery sensor system, known as Redkite, that can be fastened onto an aircraft to give government agencies persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data over an area the size of a city. The sensor is stored inside an aerodynamic pod that weighs less than 35 pounds. It can be attached to helicopters, light planes and tactical drones, such as TigerSharks, Shadows and Blackjacks, said Gus Moore, program manager for Redkite. "Many of our competitors currently have systems which are much larger and ... require much larger platforms or specifically modified platforms" to operate, he said. "Instead of something that can be added to the platforms that exist in the agency's fleet they end up being a platform and svstem of their own right."