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RONIN08 US Army Beech MC-12S-3 EMARSS-V off San Diego from Brown Muni Field
Arrived Monday from Ft. Hood
EMARSS, for Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems
The complete EMARSS system includes a Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 installed with an electro-optic and infrared full-motion video sensor and a communications intelligence collection system. The aircraft is equipped with an aerial precision guidance (APG) system and line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight communications suites. It also includes two distributed common ground system-army (DCGS-A) enabled operator consoles and a self-protection suite. The system offers significant benefits to the armed forces by collecting, analysing and providing real-time intelligence information to war fighters instantly. The EMARSS can identify, locate, analyse and trace surface targets even in low light. It offers high accuracy and preciseness in all-weather conditions. EMARSS will be operated by the Aerial Exploitation Battalions (AEB) of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). The EMARSS is designed as an open architecture, plug-and-play system, which allows for the integration of a variety of sensors and software according to the mission requirements. The EMARSS can be customised to install several sensor systems such as electro-optical/infrared cameras and MX-15 full-motion video cameras. It can be installed with a wide area surveillance system to recognise and generate images of a terrain.
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/enhanced-surveillance-system-emarss/