Perimeter of Middle Eastern air base to be secured by E-scan radars from Blighter
NewsFebruary 25, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Officials at Unlimited Technology, Inc., in Chester, Springs, Pa., chose Blighter Surveillance Systems to provide its Blighter B400 Series e-scan radars to help secure the perimeter of a strategic air base in the Middle East.
The Blighter passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radars will be part of an integrated perimeter security system at the Middle Eastern air base. This will also include a long range illuminated camera system for day/night operation. Blighter will also provide its BlighterTrack multi hypothesis software-based radar target tracker and its BlighterView HMI 2 control system for displaying the radars and to cue the camera systems -- a configuration known as Blighter Guardian. A Sensor Node from Unlimited Technology will then integrate the complete sensor suite and control electronics into a plug and play package for installation by a local integrator.
“We needed a field-proven robust and reliable e-scan radar system for a strategic airbase security solution in the Middle East. It was vital that the solution was maintenance free and offered 24-hour all-weather capability, low false alarm rates and had the range to look beyond the perimeter to provide the early target detection that our customer required," says Brent Franklin, president, Unlimited Technology, Inc. "Blighter was able to meet our needs in full and demonstrate similar successful deployments – for example, by the British Army for forward operating base security and by the Koreans along the demilitarized zone (DMZ).”
Blighter Guardian is designed for missions such as securing airbase perimeters and forward operation bases (FOBs) and provides 24/7, all-weather persistent surveillance in extreme environments. It can detect small and slow moving targets – even in cluttered environments - due to the radar system’s coactive frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) Doppler fast-scan processing. The radar can detect a walking person at 6.8 miles or a large moving vehicle at 15.5 miles and then cue the camera system to follow and identify targets, Blighter officials say.
A typical Blighter airbase or FOB configuration has the Blighter B400 Series PESA radar, BlighterTrack software, and slew-to-cue PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) thermal imaging surveillance system. The BlighterView HMI 2 control software then displays and records all the elements such as additional sensors such as a perimeter intruder detection system.
For more information, visit www.blighter.com. The Blighter Guardian will be on display through tomorrow at The International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2015), at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Abu Dhabi, UAE, (Stand 05-C16).
