Lockheed watches UK wind

Posted on 14 Apr 2010 by The Manufacturer

Lockheed Martin will deliver a long-range air surveillance radar system to the world's largest offshore wind farm, based along England's east coast.

The advanced electronics of Lockheed Martin’s TPS-77 radar mitigate interference, or “clutter,” that commonly obscure radar targets in and around wind farms. The new radar system will provide air defence surveillance capabilities for the MoD and allow the UK to move forward with its plans to install some 924 turbines along England’s east coast. The…

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