US Navy Trials BAE SYSTEMS Helicopter TERPROM
05 Feb 2001
Ref: 013/2001
The United States Navy has selected BAE Systems Helicopter TERPROM for flight demonstration onboard US Navy helicopters. This programme follows closely upon similar highly successful trials, undertaken in the UK, using British Army Lynx helicopters.
The first tranche of these trials, which will continue until mid-2001, has been successfully completed at the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, on an SH-60B Seahawk trials platform. The focus of this initial phase was operational demonstration of the TERPROM terrain referenced navigation and ground proximity warning functions during low level and contour flight.
The second phase of the programme, scheduled to begin later this year, will demonstrate TERPROM Eagle OWL, which combines sensor-based obstacle warning with digital terrain and obstruction data. By warning of imminent collision with wires, trees, terrain and obstructions, TERPROM Eagle OWL provides enhanced situational awareness and safety during low-level helicopter operations, including nap-of-the-earth flying.
Helicopter TERPROM is the latest variant of the world's leading digital terrain system, developed at the BAE Systems site at Plymouth. UK TERPROM has already been selected for a wide range of fast jet programmes world-wide, including F-16, Mirage 2000, Harrier GR7, Jaguar, Tornado, A-10 and Eurofighter Typhoon, and the transport variant, TAWS (terrain awareness warning systems), has been selected for the USAF Boeing fleet C-17.
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