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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Vigilance control system set to be tested on Merlin helicopter

EH101 Merlin |Lockheed Martin UK is readying its new airborne surveillance and control system for testing on the Merlin Mark II helicopter, which will enter Royal Navy service later in the year.

Dubbed Vigilance, the system pod incorporates advanced radar, sensors and data processing to perform a range of tasks such as the early warning of air threats, anti-submarine warfare and co-ordinating fighter jet response among other capabilities.

Vigilance was developed by Lockheed Martin as a low-cost plug-and-play system partly in response to the UK’s ‘maritime patrol gap’ left after the scrapping of Nimrod, a dedicated patrol aircraft.

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