Persistent Threat Detection System

Persistent Threat Detection System

$174.00

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Persistent Threat Detection System. The PTDS Persistent Threat Detection System is a  tethered aerostat-based system in use by the Army since 2004, the Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) is equipped with multi-mission sensors to provide long endurance intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and communications in support of coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

PTDS is a tethered system, which flies like a kite with no propulsion.  The system is a 74,000-cubic-foot envelope full of helium and aerodynamically-shaped always pointed into the wind with fins and a tail system and is always buoyant, The maximum altitude is 5,000 feet above ground level