GE Completes Lynx Radar Testing

General Atomics Aeronautical System announced that it has completed the integration and operational testing of its Lynx Multi-mode Radar. The next-generation facility, it integrates Synthetic Aperture Radar, Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI), and Dismount Moving Target Indicator (DMTI) radar into one. Testing was conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP) out of its National Air Security Operations Center in Grand Forks. The new Lynx Multi-mode Radar is a two-channel variant that expands agent situational awareness significantly, enabling them to detect, locate, and improve high geo-location accuracy of a much wider range of moving targets of the existing single-channel Lynx Block 20 Radar. It utilises enhanced radar techniques and a Space Time Adaptive Processor (STAP) that permits a target to be imaged using a matrix and improves the radar’s MTI capabilities, enabling the detection of people. It also enhances the system’s ability to cross-cue Predator B’s other onboard sensors to pursue high-value targets and allows for improved target tracking. Linden Blue, president, Reconnaissance Systems Group, GA-ASI, said, “Utilizing the Moving Target Indicator mode for detecting people walking or slow-moving vehicles from an RPA is a cutting-edge capability. The real paradigm shift is DMTI, which allows agents to detect extremely slow-movers, ranging from walkers or people on bicycles”.