Lockheed Martin to upgrade USAF’s Sniper pods

The U.S. Air Force has given Lockheed Martin $176.1 million in contracts to produce the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod-Sensor Enhancement (ATP-SE) and upgrade existing Sniper ATPs to the ATP-SE configuration.

ANAAQ-33 Sniper XR
By Hunini (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Deliveries of pods and upgrade kits will begin in fourth quarter 2016.

Upgrade kits consist of line replaceable units, once installed, older Sniper ATPs will gain improved sensors, a two-way datalink and algorithms that increase air-to-ground, air-to-air and maritime targeting capability.

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