Boeing's Bombardier Challenger-based Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (N614BA, c 5614) is ready for demonstration flights, having completed ground and flight-testing of mission systems. Rights for prospective customers around the world are scheduled to begin in the coming months. Testing included hundreds of scenarios to confirm performance of the automatic identification system, radar, electro-optical/infrared camera, communications radios, data links, communications intelligence system and the electronic support measures. The MSA is a multi-intelligence maritime surveillance platform that builds on P-8A Poseidon and E-3 AWACS Block 40/45 mission systems to provide a high capability, low-risk intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform in a mid-size business jet, the company says. Potential missions include anti-piracy, immigration patrols, economic exclusion zone enforcement, coastal and border security and long-range search and rescue.
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