Qatar is looking forward to acquiring the fixed site-low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft system integrated defeat system (FS-LIDS) system of systems from the United States.
The proposal to buy 10 FS-LIDS systems for US$1 billion, through a government-to-government foreign military sale, was approved and notified to the U.S. Congress in FY2023.
According to Raytheon, its makers, LIDS is a sure shot against drones. The KuRFS radars and Coyote effectors team up to defeat evolving, proliferating unmanned aircraft system threats, a senior official from the company said.
Besides Qatar, “there’s significant international interest in LIDS, with more than a dozen countries reaching out for briefings,” said Abel Ghanooni, senior director of Raytheon’s SHORAD and Rapid Development programs.
The FS-LIDS systems deal will include 200 Coyote Block 2 interceptors, counter unmanned electronic warfare system; Coyote launchers; Ku Band multi-function radio frequency system (KuRFS) radars, and forward area air defence command and control.
The KuRFS radar and Coyote effector deliver essential detection and defeat capabilities in the defense against unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
In LIDS, the U.S. Army integrates Raytheon’s KuRFS and Coyote with Northrop Grumman’s forward area air defence command and control system (FAADC2), and the electronic warfare system made by Syracuse Research Corporation for the integrated LIDS counter-UAS solution.
LIDS is deployable as either mobile or fixed, relocatable platforms. The system can provide both stationary support for an installation, asset, or site, and a transportable configuration for deployment flexibility.
“There are other kinds of counter-UAS configurations, but LIDS is the most robust in everything from detect, track, identify, and defeat,” said Bill Darnè, Raytheon’s Requirements and Capabilities director for counter-UAS capabilities. “That’s the advantage Coyote and KuRFS bring to the LIDS configuration. It has been rigorously tested, deployed in theater, and getting the job done.”
These capabilities now address a critical gap that existed when he was serving in the army in the Middle East, Darnè said. “During my time in Iraq, we had a significant number of false warnings that had bad, unintended consequences for our mission. Now, the accuracy of the KuRFS radar and its ability to discriminate between real threats and clutter or biological objects gives us a huge advantage over what we had in the past.”
LIDS is an operationally deployed system today, and the U.S. Army is expected to conduct its next record test in Arizona later this year – yet another opportunity to demonstrate LIDS’ exceptional capabilities and performance.
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