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The new AESA radar equipped Gripen takes off

Linköping, Sweden - The device is built by Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems

The test model of the Saab Gripen fighter, equipped with the AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) Vixen 1000E/ES05 Raven radar built by Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems (American branch of Selex Galileo, Finmeccanica), performed its first flight. Among other technologies installed on this modernized version of the Swedish aircraft, there are: new satellite communications equipment; higher...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1110959
Rome, Italy, 11/05/2009 16:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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