STARLite UAV radar ready for Army tests next month
Northrop Grumman’s AN/ZPY-1 STARLite unmanned aerial vehicle radar begins tests with the U.S.

Northrop Grumman’s AN/ZPY-1 STARLite unmanned aerial vehicle radar begins tests with the U.S. Army next month aboard the General Atomics MQ-1C Sky Warrior ERMP. In October, the company is to deliver the first qualified production units.

The U.S. group fielded the first UAV radar in Bosnia in 1994, and in 2002 demonstrated the first UAV-based radar cuing of electro-optical/infrared sensors. It has been leveraging technology from its larger active electronically scanned array radar programs to produce a unit that is small enough to be carried by UAVs. The result is STARLite (small tactical advanced radar lite).

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