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To: bentway who wrote (375059)	3/25/2008 4:20:50 PM
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..and YOU do? Yes - I worked on the ASARS-2 and PINES systems in South Korea for Hughes RADAR systems for eight years from 1989-1997. We had the same collection of idiots telling us how great satellites were right up until they torched the oil fields and gosh they couldn't see shit. The plane and predator can be retasked and launched in a few hours, spy satellites aren't stationary. PS: The U2 has not been retired - you're thinking SR-71 - smarty and the Global Hawk is carrying a Hughes SAR system. en.wikipedia.org ASARS-2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search ASARS-2 is the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System carried on some variants of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Its mission is similar to the older ASARS-1 system which was used on the SR-71 Blackbird. The ASARS-2 system was developed in the early 1980s by Hughes Aircraft, and is currently supported by Raytheon. It is capable of detecting and accurately locating both stationary and moving ground targets; target information is transmitted via a wideband data link to a ground station. The radar is capable of producing extremely high resolution images at long range. ASARS-2 was used extensively during Operation Desert Storm for target location and battle damage assessment. It has also been used to survey damage after various domestic disasters, including floods along the Mississippi River and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In the late 1990s, the ASARS Improvement Program (AIP) incorporated several performance and supportability enhancements into the system. Making extensive use of commercial off-the-shelf technology, the AIP redesign increased on-board processing capability and upgraded the data link. The first of these ASARS-2A radars was delivered in 2001 [1]. Some features and technologies from the ASARS-2A system are being incorporated into the Raytheon Sentinel, which is under development as the RAF's Airborne STand-Off Radar (ASTOR) aircraft. fas.org fas.org

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