The U.S. Army tested the Lockheed Martin Q-53 as an airspace surveillance sensor during the Northern Strike exercise.
Credit: Steve Trimble/AW&ST
Perched on a sandy bluff overlooking the Michigan National Guard’s sprawling training ground in early August, a dervish Lockheed Martin AN/TPQ-53 array scanned the northern skies, performing a task that appeared nowhere on the U.S. Army’s original requirements for the system. This mobile sensor...
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