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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Astor arrives at last

The UK Royal Air Force aims to have its new Airborne Standoff Radar System (ASTOR) undertaking operational tasks by the end of next year.

This comes after further slippage in delivery of some of the five Sentinel R1 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft at the heart of the contract.

The first aircraft was delivered to 5 Squadron in the first quarter of this year. At a pre-Paris briefing on the system, Raytheon said the second would be delivered in the third quarter of the year, with the third and fourth around October and the fifth could slip into early 2008.

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