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Airbus Completes First NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Mobile General Ground Station

Monday, December 21st, 2015

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Airbus Completes First NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Mobile General Ground Station

The NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance system’s mobile general ground stations (MGGS). Photo: Airbus.

Airbus completed the first of six mobile general ground stations (MGGS) developed for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) aerial reconnaissance capability, the company said Monday.AGS is a NATO program to establish a NATO-owned and operated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) gathering capability including five Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for airborne sensing; a ground segment of fixed, transportable, and mobile general ground stations; and a support segment.The MGGS aim to exploit radar images acquired by the Global Hawks via a direct…

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