Northrop Grumman's Load-Bearing Antennas Offer Airborne Surveillance Systems a Better Look at Ground Targets
Under a five-year, $12 million effort called the Low-Band Structural Array (LOBSTAR) program. Northrop Grumman and the Air Force Research Laboratory will be embedding antennas in the primary load-bearing structures of composite aircraft wings. The new approach could lead to antennas as large as the surface area of a wing with enough sensitivity to simultaneously detect ground-moving targets through dense foliage and track air-to-air missile threats.
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