RAF Sentinel R1 Radar System Advances Precision, Range

Credit: RAYTHEON PHOTOS
London’s new, $25-million-plus, Astor advanced airborne radar system—capable of detecting a walking man from 45,000 ft. or identifying an SUV full of Taliban leaders—is being readied for its first combat assignment somewhere in the Middle East or Southwest Asia. A few years ago, Britain captured the...

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