ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. defense company Lockheed Martin has completed phase II of a target identification software integration for the U.S. Air Force B-52 aircraft program.
Lockheed Martin announced the second phase of its Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod B-52 program has been successfully completed as part of a contract with the Air Force.
Lockheed Martin says the phase II integration of its Sniper technologies, designed to provide aircrews with next-generation long-range target identification and video downlink capabilities, successfully demonstrated target tracking with the B-52 aircraft.
"The Sniper pod demonstrated exceptional high-altitude performance … in multi-target track, the track boxes stayed exactly where I placed them, the range from which I could identify targets was equally impressive," Maj. Chris Chandler, Air Force 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron operations flight commander, said in a statement.
