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The first tests of a new modular radar range pole model that allows large-scale physical changes were recently completed at the Lockheed Martin Helendale Measurement Facility in California's Mojave Desert. The model's flexible design permits customers to easily modify many preplanned regions of their vehicle's configuration and quickly collect high-fidelity data, making the pole model a design tool rather than a demonstration device. The full-scale pole model was designed and built in less than thirteen months. The initial tests had the model configured as the Northrop Grumman X-47B vehicle built for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems, or J-UCAS, program. Radar cross section testing of the vehicle will continue throughout 2006.
Photo By Denny Lombard
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