General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, maker of the family of Predator unmanned air vehicles, is getting into the manned aircraft game.
The company on Tuesday introduced the Griffin Eye, a manned intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance payload with an operator console for use on the Beechcraft King Air 350 and other aircraft.
Griffin Eye would provide field commanders and border patrol agencies with enhanced image exploitation and Claw multi-sensor payload control. The system delivers the all-weather precision capability to detect, identify and track time-sensitive targets.
The combo synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indicator would provide all-weather, wide-area surveillance to locate targets of interest and cross-cues its electro-optical/infrared cameras for visual verification.
The move builds on General Atomics' Predator UAVs as well as experience integrating ISR capabilities on Iraqi Hawker Beechcraft aircraft, said Chris Ames, director of business development for the aircraft systems group of General Atomics.
"General Atomics can be prime with Griffin Eye," Ames said.
Source: Flight Daily News
