4th September 2006
Skyquest awarded mission display contract for Swedish Super Puma retrofit
Skyquest Aviation, the UK based supplier of specialist airborne mission equipment has been awarded a contract to supply multi-function mission displays and RDR1500 radar converters to the Swedish military.
Through their Scandinavian representative, Scandinavian Aerospace, Skyquest will supply multiple displays each capable of displaying several sources of video including FLIR and radar from the existing RDR1500 SAR radar.
Skyquest completed development of the RDR1500 radar signal converter in late 2005 and the system is now being retrofitted to several aircraft worldwide to replace the ageing CRT technology originally supplied with the radar. By using Skyquest’s new converter technology users can now use the radar display for additional functionality such as displaying FLIR or colour video images, moving map images and computer generated graphics.
Scandinavian Aerospace, based in Sweden, were appointed as Skyquest’s official Scandinavian representative earlier in 2006 and have been successful in building business for Skyquest throughout the region.
Hans Sandstrom, founder of Scandinavian Aerospace, stated that ‘there are many aircraft in the region needing retrofit of their airborne surveillance equipment in order to keep up with the latest technology’ and went on to say that ‘Skyquest are well placed to supply mission displays and aircraft video recorders as their range is now so comprehensive’.
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