Orbital ATK Validates ShotFinder Acoustic Warning System on Fixed-Wing Aircraft
June 21 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
ShotFinder Offers Affordable Hostile-Fire
Indication Capability for Both Rotary and Fixed-Wing
Aircraft
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, announced it has completed testing and
characterization of its ShotFinder Acoustic Hostile-Fire Indication
System on a fixed-wing aircraft. The ShotFinder system, installed
on a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft configured for intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance, collected ambient acoustic data
while the aircraft was being subjected to a variety of operating
scenarios. Data analysis and simulated live-fire data injection
indicates the system will accurately produce hostile-fire
indications from the expected threats.
“Orbital ATK’s ShotFinder has previously been shown to be
effective against a variety of incoming enemy-arms fire when
utilized on rotary-wing platforms,” said Cary Ralston, Vice
President and General Manager of the Defense Electronic Systems
Division of Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group. “The additional
data collection on a fixed-wing platform broadens the potential
user base to allow Caravan and other fixed-wing pilots the improved
means to safely complete their mission.”
ShotFinder identifies and directionally locates small-arms fire,
anti-aircraft artillery and rocket-propelled grenade threats.
Orbital ATK, together with Scientific Applications and Research
Associates (SARA), developed the acoustic hostile-fire warning
system by using the supersonic shock wave from a passing bullet and
the muzzle blast from the weapon to determine a bullet’s origin and
point of closest approach. ShotFinder has a high probability of
hostile-fire detection and a low false-alarm rate, and relays a
real-time directional warning to the pilot.
Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in
providing innovative and affordable ammunition, precision and
strike weapons, electronic warfare systems, and missile components
across air-, sea- and land-based systems.
About SARA
SARA Inc. creates custom solutions to complex problems for the
defense industry. Located in Cypress, California, it specializes in
directed or detected wave energy from lasers, high power
microwaves, electromagnetic pulses to extremely low frequency
electromagnetics and sound. More information can be found at
www.sara.com.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 12,500 people in 18 states across the U.S. and in
several international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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