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Scorpion II – Unattended Drone Surveillance & Targeting Systems

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 23:37

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Coming Soon To An American Neighborhood Near You! Introducing the Military Industrial Complex’s Northrup Grumman’s Scorpion II Unattended Ground Sensor System.

Tens of Thousands of these Scorpion II Unattended Drone Surveillance & Targeting Systems, along with many other sensor systems, are being installed all across the United States as part of the NDAA drone deployment.

Scorpion II – Unattended Drone Surveillance & Targeting Systems

This is just one of many types of ground sensors which are being installed across the United States to create a complete surveillance gridnet in support of 30,000 drones being deployed over U.S. skies under authorization of the NDAA.

But don’t worry, the government doesn’t plan on using them on U.S. citizens – they just like to wasting taxpayer money.

This mesh of ground sensors will communicate with drone aircraft in sky as part of America’s new surveillance state and can detected, identify and track nearly anything that falls within its range.

With emplacement support for decades long unattended concealed missions the Electro-Optic (EO) & IR sensors work up to 2km away and provide persistent data and imagery to enable target classification, identification GPS location, and actionable intelligence for targets up to 800 meters away.

Additionally the IR system capable of being buried beneath the ground detects and classifies targets from 30 to 100 meters away.

The system can operated wired or wirelessly and boasts of day and night vision EO, seismic, magnetic, and passive IR sensors, wireless local RF communications, and a remote universal communications gateway.

The system is also Interoperable with legacy acoustic (microphones), passive IR, seismic, magnetic, chemical, biological, and optical sensor.

SCORPION II Unattended Target Recognition System

This fully autonomous Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) system comprises wired or wireless day and night vision Electro-Optic (EO), seismic, magnetic, and passive IR sensors, wireless local RF communications, and a remote universal communications gateway. The universal gateway provides secure, two-way, LOS and BLOS communications for around the clock global surveillance of time critical targets.

SCORPION II Long, Short and Point Blank Range Target Recognition System provides critical worldwide data and imagery for long or short duration military and intelligence gathering operations. This next generation system incorporates new technologies and improved performance with reduced size, weight, and volume when compared to its predecessor.

Multiple, geographically separate SCORPION II systems can transmit imagery and sensor data to distributed users world-wide. Data from separate sensor systems are combined to form a Common Operational Picture (COP).

The robust, modular, scaleable, open interface architecture implemented in the Scorpion II system is easily adaptable to a myriad of COTS sensors from most vendors as well as a wide variety of communication links.

SCORPION II is designed to use minimal power while maximizing battery life, enabling missions lasting six months or longer without changing batteries.

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Overview Northrop Grumman’s SCORPION II

Long, Short and Point Blank Range Target Recognition System provides critical worldwide data and imagery for long or short duration military and intelligence gathering operations. This next generation system incorporates new technologies and improved performance with reduced size, weight, and volume when compared to its Scorpion predecessor.

This fully autonomous Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) system is comprised of wired or wireless day and night vision Electro-Optic (EO), seismic, magnetic, and passive IR sensors, wireless local RF communications, and a remote universal communications gateway.

The universal gateway provides secure, two-way, LOS and BLOS communications for around the clock global surveillance of time critical targets.

Multiple, geographically separate SCORPION II systems can transmit imagery and sensor data to distributed users world wide.

Data from separate sensor systems are combined to form a Common Operational Picture (COP).

The robust, modular, scaleable, open interface architecture implemented in the SCORPION II system is easily adaptable to a myriad of COTS sensors from most vendors as well as a wide variety of communication links.

SCORPION II is designed to use minimal power while maximizing battery life, enabling missions lasting six months or longer without changing batteries.

Operators may add an optical pan / tilt device for collecting short and long range day or night imagery (zoom capable). The device eliminates the need for mechanical movement, eases concealment, and reduces the probability of system detection.

Mission Areas

Situational Awareness

Border and Perimeter Security

Persistent Surveillance

Target Recognition

Urban / Jungle operations

IED Defeat

Combined Adaptive Sensor Transceiver (CAST)

Combines Seismic, Magnetic and Directional/Passive IR Activity Sensors with a two-way Line of Sight Transceiver in a Buried Package

Detects/Classifies Targets from 30 to 100 meters away

Cues EO & IR Sensors up to 2km away

Electro-optic (EO) and Infrared (IR) Sensors

EO and IR sensors provide persistent data and imagery to enable target classification, identification GPS location, and actionable intelligence for targets up to 800 meters away

Optional optical pan / tilt device negates the need for large swept volume, while easing concealment and reducing system detection vulnerability

Universal Communications Gateway

Bi-directional Secure Universal Gateway provides Encrypted Long-haul and Local RF Communications to Capture, Process, and Relay sensor data and enable Remote Command and Control of the Sensors

VHF Burst AdHoc Network provides EO, Gateway and target area monitoring (TOC)

Additional Capability Modules attach to main Gateway for

Ancillary Items

Cables, Antennas, Concealment Kits, and other items

Support Emplacement for Long Duration Unattended Concealed Missions

Key Features

Modular, Open Extensible Architecture

Greater than 95% Probability of Detection/ Recognition When Optimized

Day and Night Target Detection and Recognition up to 800 Meters

State of the Art 640×480 Long Wave IR Thermal Technology

Adaptive Seismic/Magnetic Activity Sensors

Wireless Activity Sensor to Gateway Connections

Embedded GPS Capability

Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Supports Mission Planning, Information Tracking, and Remote Sensor Control

Man-portable, Lightweight, Easy to Deploy and Transportable in One Rucksack

Low Operating Power/Long Battery Life Extends

Mission Life to 6 Months

Interoperable with Legacy Acoustic, Passive IR, Seismic, Magnetic, Chemical, Biological, and
Optical Sensors

Ruggedized for Extreme Environments

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