Overview:
00L-3 Cincinnati Electronics (L-3 CE) provides outstanding flexibility, versatility, and innovative deployment technology for airborne warfare architects, from security to surveillance to target acquisition and accurate munitions delivery. L-3 CE IR modules are deployed in a wide range of airborne warfare platforms:
  • Navigation & Landing: Navigation/landing FLIR modules “See” through fog, smoke, other visual obscurants. For land or carrier-based warplanes.
  • Target Acquisition & Tracking: Acquisition, identification and munitions delivery. Imagers cut through atmospheric clutter and all weather conditions Infrared Detector assemblies for weather-threat warning.
  • Reconnaissance & Surveillance:Reduced “Stare” time under all weather conditions. Monitor launch and re-entry plumes and ground troop movement.

 

Navigation & Landing:
00L-3 CE air navigation/landing FLIR modules are deployed on a number of manned and unmanned aircraft and missiles. We offer a specially-configured drop-in FLIR for gimbaled sensor applications such as targeting pods and ball turrets for rotary, fixed-wing aircraft and drones.
L-3 CE supplies a custom-designed air navigation package for both land-based and carrier-based warplanes. The system is especially effective in helping to locate aircraft carriers at sea, at night or in inclement weather, or where the battlespace is otherwise obscured, allowing piloting personnel to "see" through fog, smoke, and other visual obscurants.

 

Target Acquisition & Tracking
00L-3 CE airborne IR imagers put combatants "On Track" for faster, more reliable target acquisition and tracking. L-3 CE provides mission-matched InSb sensor technologies with advanced thermal-seeking capabilities to pinpoint target acquisition for munitions delivery and missile guidance. They provide the means to build an effective fire-and-forget threat deterrence with a high hit probability. New digital interface capability ensures more precise target tracking and discrimination even through atmospheric clutter and a heavy countermeasure environment.
00High thermal discrimination (ability to detect even minute temperature changes) enables target lock-on at longer standoff range on newest technology designs. Reduced "stare time" provides faster, more reliable target verification and more rapid response with direct-attack munitions packages. Dual mode laser/thermal image sensors offer flexibility and synergy in tracking target and delivering laser-guided missiles.
00L-3 CE third generation infrared targeting systems leapfrog over the older 1st & 2nd GEN designs. This new state-of-the-art technology captures electronics, laser and FLIR improvements developed over the last two decades. The modules combine these technology improvements with proven airborne surveillance and targeting subsystems to produce the most capable and cost-efficient targeting system offered today.

Reconnaissance & Surveillance
00L-3 CE takes on high altitude reconnaissance and surveillance enhanced line of defense. Our latest generation IRFPA thermal imaging modules enhance situational awareness, provide a clearer view of the battlespace and significantly extend the visual reach of the combatant. Their compact size, maximum performance characteristics and low power requirements provide for wide ranging interchangeability and interoperability across a diversity of airborne platforms.
00L-3 CE imaging modules can be utilized effectively for reconnaissance and security/surveillance missions, damage assessment, search and rescue and many other missions. The key to the innovative performance of the many diverse families of 00L-3 CE imagers is their unique electronics/sensor architecture which produces unsurpassed detection and recognition for short range, long range, or, in the newer designs, extremely long ranges, unaffected by atmospheric clutter or adverse visibility. All modules provide day and nighttime surveillance in all kinds of weather conditions, wide area threat detection and the capability to respond with effective countermeasures as needed.
00Deployed on high altitude surveillance aircraft, these imagers can be used to monitor launch and reentry plumes of ballistic missiles as well as ground troop movement and disbursement of offensive resources. This allows critical information to be relayed in real time to battlespace commanders for rapid deployment of counter forces. Several of today's mission critical manned and unmanned aircraft programs, such as TUAV, Rivet Joint and SHARP, have incorporated the NightConqueror sensor module into their reconnaissance suites for 24 hour, all-weather, and wide-area observation.