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2021-09-01 Science & Technology

Check Out the United States Army's New Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Plane

[National Interest] The U.S. Army Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System aircraft, ARES, just made its first flight. The Army hopes that the multi-engine jet will offer a more capable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability compared to older Army Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconisance (ISR) aircraft.
The aircraft in the graphic is not the ARES Platform but rather a Contracted Shorts-360 introduced at Balad and FOB Spiecher (Al Sahra Air Base VIC Tikrit, Iraq) in 2009 as an Army Research Lab (ARL) proof of concept. Constant Hawk conducted Persistence Surveillance platform flying counter-IED missions over Baghdad, Iraq. The Constant Hawk project was extended with AFG missioning flying out of Kandahar utilizing C-12 platforms. The old 360's went home to Milwaukee following the end of the conflict in Iraq.
The ARES platform is based on the Bombardier 6000/6500 airplanes, business jets originally designed for luxury flight, but that offer the right mix of range and payload capacity to serve in a specialized intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) role for the United States Army.

The ARES airplane is serving as a technology demonstrator for the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program, which the Army hopes can mesh "capabilities from the Army’s existing ISR fleet with capacity to add payloads, sensors and increase standoff ranges."

And in an ISR role, the aircraft would succeed. Boasting brand-new Rolls-Royce engines and a nearly 7,600-mile range, the jet can cruise at over 40,000 feet and has a flight endurance of over fourteen hours in the ARES configuration. "Flight operations above 40,000 feet enhance aircraft survivability and line-of-sight," according to a recent statement, and helped make "ARES and HADES key Sensor to Shooter (S2S) network enablers, the Army’s top modernization priority."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 What good does ISR do if you can't act on it.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 01:15|| 2021-09-01 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2
The Augmented Reality update is due in a few months.

/sarc

Posted by Dron66046 2021-09-01 01:35|| 2021-09-01 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ You can see what you want to see, even call a strike on it, and report a humongous victory.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-09-01 01:36|| 2021-09-01 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Just in time to use it against the US population.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 01:39|| 2021-09-01 01:39|| Front Page Top

#5
Maybe good for a 2nd/3rd world situations.
Provided it is not seen by a person carrying a CCP/Russian Mobile Shoulder Fired STA.

But for civilian tracking. The US Intel/Fed's have Internet monitoring sites, Cellular access points and down-looking Sat's that make a KH-12+ look like a toy for many years now.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-01 09:18|| 2021-09-01 09:18|| Front Page Top

#6 how many of these did we leave for the Talibs?

Posted by Warthog 2021-09-01 09:41|| 2021-09-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Considering the 2nd world disappeared 30 years ago, I rather doubt we will be using this drone against the Soviets and their satellite countries.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 11:59|| 2021-09-01 11:59|| Front Page Top

#8 it is also woke trans compliant it can pee fuel in mid air into its own hole pick one or both and refuel itself!

Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-09-01 14:46|| 2021-09-01 14:46|| Front Page Top

#9 this new aircraft would replace the existing platform which is several decades old

https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/guardrail-common-sensor-grcs/

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-09-01 19:49|| 2021-09-01 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Slap a Gatling gun on that baby, add some hardpoints for bombs and you got yourself one fine Close Air Support/ISR airplane. The beancounters will think they died and went to Heaven. Multi-role, Multi-mission, baby!

Posted by SteveS 2021-09-01 20:52|| 2021-09-01 20:52|| Front Page Top

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