US military receive newest spy plane

The U.S. Army has announced that the second Long Range Radar-Enhanced, the productionized version of the LRR prototype Surveillance System.

According to a press release from Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors, the LRR-E is capable of detecting moving targets using two types of Moving Target Indication

The LRR-E is also capable of Synthetic Aperture Radar, a separate mode of the radar, which provides three dimensional radio frequency spectrum representation of the physical environment. This allows the operator to see a terrain through the lens of a radar.

Another feature that makes the LRR-E unique is that the antenna is not mechanically swept. Unlike some other radars within the PD SAI portfolio, such as the Small Tactical Radar Lightweight (STARLite), the LRR-E does not use a gimbaled antenna.

PD SAI plans to build three LRR-E systems and install them onto three Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) aircraft. The first LRR-E system was delivered in April 2018 and a third system is expected to be delivered mid- to late-2022.