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Latvia Orders ThalesRaytheonSystems Sentinel Air Defense Radars

Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

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Latvia Orders ThalesRaytheonSystems Sentinel Air Defense Radars

AN/MPQ-64F1 Improved Sentinel air defense radar. Photo: ThalesRaytheonSystems.

Latvia is procuring four Improved Sentinel AN/MPQ-64 F1 air defense radars from ThalesRaytheonSystems, the company said Wednesday.Sentinel is a mobile three-dimensional, phased-array radar system that operates in the X-band frequency range. The system is suitable for missions including air surveillance, air defense and missile systems coordination, homeland defense, and infrastructure protection, the company said.The system is able to detect helicopters, high-speed attack aircraft, cruise missiles, and UAVs, ThalesRaytheonSystems said on the product website. Over 200 systems have been ordered globally,…

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