Marshall Land Systems and UTC Aerospace Systems to provide ISTAR solutions to the Middle East

New ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Target Acquisition) imagery ground control stations are to enter service with two Middle East armed forces in the next 12 months following the award of contacts worth over £2.5 million to a team from Marshall Land Systems, part of Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, and UTC Aerospace Systems.

Working together the two companies are developing a system which is being fitted into a Marshall shelter and then mounted on the back of a military utility vehicle. Fitted inside the shelter will be ISTAR imagery interpretation equipment from UTC Aerospace Systems. The units will provide the customers with a highly mobile solution able to keep up with deployable command centres wherever they go. In the case of one of the contracts there will also be trailer mounted generating equipment to give the system its own integral power source.