Product category:
Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: Vmetro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2004
Data recorder specified for Nato radar
programme
Vmetro's German subsidiary has received an order for a real-time recording and playback system for the Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar (SOSTAR) programme.
Vmetro's German subsidiary has received an order for a real time recording and playback system for the Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar (SOSTAR) programme SOSTAR-X is an European radar development involving the five countries Germany (EADS-Dornier), Italy (Galileo Avionica), France (Thales Airborne Systems), The Netherlands (Dutch Space) and Spain (Indra)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The recording system consists of four data recording channels controlled by a central management unit at an approximate value of NOK 4 million.
The system will be delivered in 2004.
Vmetro was selected as supplier for the recording system because of the market leading performance and unique ease of integration of its products combined with the local support capabilities offered by its subsidiaries in Germany and Italy.
"The flexibility of the Vmetro recording and replay solution as well as the ease in which it was integrated with the processing architecture were key factors in it's selection for the SOSTAR-X programme", said Sergio Marazzini, Project Manager, System Radar Business Unit at Galileo Avionica.
"For the customer this translates into a more modular system architecture with well defined interfaces, lower developments risks, and a system that is open to future technological advances in the COTS market", said Harald Schibbye, Product Manager at Vmetro.
"We believe the customer has chosen the most flexible and scalable solution available in the market today". Request free introductory details about products from Vmetro ...
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