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Constant Hawk is a United States Army wide-area persistent surveillance system flown on manned reconnaissance aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like similar wide-area surveillance systems, such as Gorgon Stare, ARGUS-IS or the aerostat-mounted Kestrel, Constant Hawk was designed to give operators a fuller view of an area (such as a battlefield or operating base) than they would normally get from standard full-motion video cameras.〔 The Army first deployed Constant Hawk in 2006 as part of a Quick Reaction Capability to help combat enemy ambushes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan and Iraq.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/constant-hawk.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://defense-update.com/features/2009/sept/1709009_awapss.html )〕 Constant Hawk flew on Short 360-300s in Iraq〔 under the command of Task Force ODIN. And the system was introduced to Afghanistan in 2009,〔 where it is still in use aboard MC-12W Liberty aircraft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Walking-Back-the-Cat-The-US-Armys-Constant-Hawk-06832/ )〕 ==Development== Initial work on Constant Hawk began in the early 2000s (decade) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of the Sonoma Persistent Surveillance Program, a U.S. Department of Energy effort to monitor nuclear proliferation. In 2005, Sonoma was passed to the Department of Defense, which eventually developed Constant Hawk for the U.S. Army.〔 The U.S. Army adopted the program under the name of Mohawk Stare, which was the predecessor to Constant Hawk.〔 Since 2005, MIT has been developing processing algorithms enabling efficient formation, exploitation and dissemination of Constant Hawk imagery. In 2009, BAE Systems provided an additional, infrared payload for Constant Hawk called the Airborne Wide Area Persistent Surveillance Sensor (AWAPSS).〔 In 2013, the MIT sensor MASIVS was deployed by Constant Hawk increasing pixel counts by an order of magnitude and providing full color imagery processed in real-time onboard the aircraft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constant Hawk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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