"Reopening competition for an RTIP-type technology could provide the winning company with an inside track to the upcoming modernization of aging intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. In the near future that would include Global Hawk, in both air-to-air and air-to-ground roles; NATO's AGS aircraft, a smaller, modernized version of the Joint-STARS; a Joint-STARS follow-on aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, and technology suitable for other high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs.The Air Force is formulating requirements for a multi-engine, multi-ton payload, reduced signature, long-endurance and high-altitude UAV"
Почти как я предлагал для Гангута.
>Амеры упрощают. Новый тим радара ДРЛО без вращающейся антенны + радар воздух - земля в одном небольшом самолете.
My guess is it's not as good as an AWACS in terms of air coverage. The article gives an impression that air tracking is more of a secondary ability, a somewhat unexpected bonus.
Also, the article says that "RTIP, a Northrop Grumman effort, would have doubled the acuity of the E-8 Joint-STARS radar and made it better able to find cruise missiles, even those with stealth shapes and coatings." If they actually built this your ekranoplan DRLO won't be as undetectable as you think it would be.
Zajdi v kurilku, please.
Ilya
>Амеры упрощают. Новый тим радара ДРЛО без вращающейся антенны + радар воздух - земля в одном небольшом самолете.