The AAS is the rectangular box on the aircraft's belly. In operation it is lowered beneath the engines. Boeing
The U.S. Navy may gain the ability to locate submarines from the air as a radical new radar finally moves into the deployment phase.
The Raytheon AN/APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) is a giant radar mounted in a pod under the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. It’s a solid-state ultra-fast electronically-scanned array: unlike the old rotating-dish radar under a dome, it has no moving parts and moves at the speed of digital.
When in use, a hydraulic arm lowers the pod clear of the aircraft’s engines, giving it a clear 360-degree view of the sea below in all directions. The project came out of the highly classified "black" world, and details are still shadowy. We do know, however, that it can operate in a variety of different modes, from scanning broad areas to shooting a tight beam of energy to take a high-resolution radar snapshot from long range, or tracking multiple moving objects as small as individuals on foot. It provides monochrome images with photograph-like resolution in all weathers, through clouds and in darkness.
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Update: The Navy's Next Mission: Detect Invisible Submarines From the Sky (Popular Mechanics)
WNU Editor: If this works as advertised, it will be a game changer when it comes to anti-submarine warfare.
4 comments:
I wonder if it can be mounted on a sat? Talk about game changer. No more hiding
But wait until everybody else has it too. Then no more USA submarine advantage.
Biden and company will sell it to the Chinese.
For this radar to make visible such a vast area and one that used to be a pretty secure spot on the planet...One to think about.
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