USAF defends performance of Gorgon Stare sensor

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27/01/11 By Gayle Putrich Flight International

US Air Force officials past and present have jumped to the defence of the service's much-touted new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system, after a draft report that detailed its testing as a flop circulated around the Beltway. Gorgon Stare - billed as an "all-seeing eye" that puts a cluster of up to 12 cameras on a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air vehicle - was deemed "not operationally effective" and "not operationally suitable" by the 53rd Wing at Eglin AFB in Florida, which was charged with testing the system. But retired Lt Gen David Deptula, who until last August was the USAF's deputy chief of staff for ISR, says the problems listed in the leaked report were caused by the testing process and human errors, and not by the system itself.

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