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Air Force Lab Tests Radar Warning Receiver For New Combat Rescue Helicopter

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, August 30th, 2017

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The AN/APR-52 Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), which is being developed to detect radar threats for the Air Force’s future HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH), has demonstrated its technological maturity in a government laboratory, according to Lockheed Martin [LMT], whose Sikorsky unit is the CRH prime contractor.The May test involved high-fidelity simulations at the Air Force Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Lockheed Martin announced the week of Aug. 13. The AN/APR-52 is designed to detect more threats and…

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