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Lockheed Martin’s Q-53 Radar Successfully Conducts C-UAS Mission In Army Demonstration

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, October 31st, 2022

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Lockheed Martin’s Q-53 Radar Successfully Conducts C-UAS Mission In Army Demonstration

The AN/TPQ-53 radar system. Photo courtesy Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Q-53 Multi-Mission Radar (MMR) helped to successfully conduct a counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) mission during a recent demonstration with the Army, the company said on Oct. 27. During the exercise at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona in late summer, Lockheed Martin said the Q-53 was integrated with the Army’s Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system and provided tracking data to launch Raytheon Technologies’ [RTX] Coyote Block 2 counter-drone defeat system. “The Q-53 radar…

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