![]() ![]() ![]() PTDS leverages a wide-area, secure communications backbone for the integration of threat reporting from multiple available sensor assets. The PTDS is an aerostat-based sensor integration architecture designed to support the automated interoperability between tactical/theater surveillance assets and the dissemination of threat data to operational forces to aid interdiction of hostile fires and unconventional threats. The system’s sensor integration architecture supports the automated interoperability between tactical/theater surveillance assets and the dissemination of threat data to operational forces to aid interdiction of hostile fires and unconventional threats.” 1Īccording to a brochure released by Lockheed Martin, the PTDS is a “sensor integration architecture”: According to the PTDS is equipped with multi-mission sensors to provide long endurance intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and communications in support of coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.Īccording to information provided by the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, the PTDS “leverages a wide-area, secure communications backbone for the integration of threat reporting from multiple available sensors. The Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) is a tethered aerostat-based system that has been in use by the U.S. The United States Army first began using PTDS in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2004. Lockheed Martin’s 420k Persistent Threat Detection System is a tethered aerostat-based system, capable of staying aloft for weeks at a time and providing round-the-clock surveillance of broad areas. ![]()
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