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An unusual P-3 - sporting a Side Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) system pod underneath, P-3C 161132 made a brief stop at Mildenhall.
The AN/APS 94 SLAR was developed by Motorola and is used on the Navy P-3, as well as the Air Force JSTARS and other military aircraft. It is an X-band radar with an eighteen-foot long externally mounted antenna - it aquires a 'slant range' image of the surrounding terrain in two strips on either side of the aircraft as the antenna hangs below the fuselage so it can 'see' on both sides. Uses of the AN/APS 94 have included charting the extent of flood waters, mapping, locating lost vessels, charting ice floes, locating archaeological sites, seaborne polution spill tracking, and a varity of other geophysical surveying chores, as well as smuggling and drug-running interdiction. Picture courtesy Gary Stedman
http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/scene/mhall/070414/p3.jpg
SLAR take two! Seen during a quick turnaround today was P-3C 161126 carrying a recently fitted pod - it is now thought to be a Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS) pod system, soon to be operational with VP-46 in the Middle East. The same aircraft transited through the 'Hall on 14 February without the pod (see smaller pic), so one must [In February] assume that there is a programme of fitments underway in the US. Maybe we can expect more in the next few weeks? Pictures courtesy
http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/scene/mhall/070419/p3a.jpg
http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/scene/mhall/070419/p3.jpg
http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/scene.htm
