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Old 11th Oct 2016, 13:56
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Glaaar
 
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I'm sure LM is pleased but given the sole competitive choice is the (Israeli) LITENING-G4/G5, this is not entirely unpredicted, given the only other competitors (Terminator/ATFLIR) and Damocles are at least two generations back.

It remains to be seen however if the Kuwaitis will get the full ATP-SE with the multispectral imager in the 2,000+ detector count, the laser target silhouette mapper or the enhanced A2A/Maritime (pseudo IRST) modes plus imbedded datalink.

To put this in perspective: While nominally of the same component heritage, Sensor Enhancement on the Sniper is about 1 generation ahead of the AAQ-40 EOTS on the F-35.

Luk at duh pretee pikichur...
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