The test flight of the MS-110 system demonstrated aircraft integration, flightworthiness, and full-system performance within the demanding confines of tactical jet flight envelopes.
Collins Aerospace, one of the world’s largest suppliers of aerospace and defense products announced the successful completion of the first flight test of the company’s newest Fast-Jet reconnaissance pod, the MS-110 Multispectral Airborne Reconnaissance system, on an F-16 fighter jet. The test was done for an undisclosed international customer. The test flight demonstrated the aircraft integration, flightworthiness, and full-system performance within the demanding confines of tactical jet flight envelopes. Collins Aerospace is a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary.
The advanced MS-110 Multispectral Airborne Reconnaissance system greatly enhances airborne reconnaissance mission capabilities. The MS-110 provides a longer range and wider area of surveillance in contested and peacetime scenarios against peer and near-peer adversaries. The system’s advanced imagery and multispectral capabilities detect targets with a higher degree of confidence, even during poor weather/atmospheric conditions, and may be rapidly disseminated via high-bandwidth datalink and Collins’ ground intelligence-sharing architecture.
“Accurate and reliable intelligence that can be shared at a national and coalition level is critical to mission success in the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) battlespace,” said Lora Magliocco, director and general manager, Airborne ISR Solutions for Collins Aerospace. “Successfully completing this trial demonstrates the readiness of the MS-110 systems to support customers around the globe,” she added further.
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The MS-110 sensor evolved from the highly successful DB-110 system and leverages Collins Aerospace’s proven multi-spectral imaging (MSI) expertise from SYERS-2C flown on the U-2. Collins Aerospace reconnaissance systems have been fielded and are operational on tactical fast jet platforms such as the F-15 and F-16, as well as on special mission ISR business jets. The system is also compatible with MALE UAVs such as the MQ-9.
