"SPY - SKY" – Reconnaissance System

World's first, wide area coverage, Reconnaissance video mortar bomb
Includes parachute with automatic deployment in peak trajectory altitude.

      Highlights

• 20 seconds from firing to full coverage video.
• Super High resolution video quad for detailed aerial surveillance.
• Real time video and data transmission up to 18 km.
• Fire tested under 10,000 g acceleration in complete configuration.
• GPS and compass telemetries included for better orientation

        System Incorporates

• 4 Cameras inter combined, covering simultaneousely an area of 1200x1600 meters from 6000 ft. altitude.
• Video/Telemetry transmitter for 18Km. range.
• Airborne GPS, giving LAT/LON coordinates; altitudes, speed and direction of system, with 1 second update rate.
• Ground reception and display console, for video and numeric data, with optional interface to other C²I systems via RS232  operating sequence.
• A pyrotechnic mechanism lets the optic head and the parachute out of the shell, when the mortar bomb reaches its summit.
• Transmitter to send video and GPS parameters to the ground console, during the optic head's descent.

      Assembly Line

• Mortar
• Reconnaissance head (Camers + Radio)
• Parachute
• Casing & Pyrotechnic Mechanism

         System Characteristics

• 4 Seconds after parachute ejection, the system stabilizes in roll and yew 
• Parachute vertical speed: 2.5-5 m/s
• MISSION TIME: 6-12 min.
• Real time video transmission 
• Average wind drift: 5 m/s
• GPS reports system's position, altitude and wind drift vector
• Ground console station allows real time and detailed playback of mosaic or single high resolution picture
• GPS position and video mosaic footprint are shown on digital map   

        Advantages

• Real time “over the hill”  surveillance
• Firing from standard mortars in battalion and company level
• Simple to operate
• A valuable tool for true wind and meteorological sampling by GPS position and drift vector, during parachute descend
• Large area coverage with high resolution, without any scanning mechanism

      Applications

• Brigade level real time video reconnaissance
• Over the hill instantaneous intelligence
• Damage assessment
• Real time Meteorology field measurements

      Target View