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Boeing
Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) Ready for Demonstration Flights |
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The
Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) program is ready for customer
demonstration flights, having completed the baseline ground and flight
testing of the aircraft mission systems. Flights for prospective customers
around the world are scheduled to begin in the coming months. The mission
system testing followed last year’s airworthiness and certification
testing. |
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The Boeing
Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) program is ready for customer demonstration
flights, having completed the baseline ground and flight testing of
the aircraft mission systems. Picture: Boeing
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“The
mission systems flight test program proved the functionality and performance
of the onboard sensors and was a huge accomplishment for the MSA team,”
said David Utz, MSA demonstrator flight test manager.
The testing included hundreds of scenarios to confirm performance of
the Automatic Identification System, radar, Electro-Optical Infrared
camera, communications radios and data links, Communications Intelligence
System and the Electronic Support Measures. |
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Boeing Maritime
Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) at Farnborough 2014
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MSA is
a multi-intelligence maritime surveillance platform that leverages investments
in the P-8A Poseidon and the Airborne Warning and Control System Block
40/45 aircraft mission systems to provide a high capability, low-risk
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solution in a mid-size
business jet.
The aircraft’s potential missions include anti-piracy, immigration
patrols, Economic Exclusion Zone enforcement, coastal and border security
and long-range search and rescue.
The baseline configuration features a Selex ES Seaspray
7300 Active Electronically Scanned Array multi-mode radar, a FLIR Star
Safire 380 Electro/Optical/Infrared sensor, Electronic Support Measures,
a Communications Intelligence sensor and Automated Identification System. |
