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Flight Tests Start This Month For Northrop Grumman’s STARLite

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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

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By B.C. Kessner Northrop Grumman's [NOC] aim of providing an all weather surveillance capability for small UAVs will come a step closer to realization in the coming months as flight tests and deliveries begin for its STARLite payload, the company said Monday. "The exciting thing about this is a full-up SAR/GMTI (synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indicator) radar that's basically brought down to the size and weight for use on small UAV platforms," Jack Pledger, director IRCM business development at…

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