Radar Boresight Camera

  
    The 2122 series cameras are designed to be used where a radar, or weapon system, requires a precision boresighted camera for integration into an electro-optional system. The cameras are supplied complete, in a sealed and pressurised housing with sunshield and mounting baseplate. The housing contains the CCD camera, lens and remote control receiver. To eliminate the number of lines through slip rings, the camera requires only power, data (2) and video (composite or YC). The built in remote controller controls all lens functions, washer and wiper. An optional preset control allows preset wide, medium and narrow fields of view to be preset and called up from the keyboard (or serial link).

The 2122 will accomodate a wide variety of CCD sensors, including high -resolution monochrome, PAL/YC, NTSC/YC and 2nd or 3rd Gen intensifiers. A common option is colour by day and 3rd Gen by night, with an automatic changeover system. The housing can accept large aperture lenses and can be supplied to fit specified optical assemblies. Camera/lens alignment can be carried out in workshops using a 2nd line set up jig, and then installed in to the camera housing. A precision location system enables camera/lens combinations to be replaced on the radar or weapon system without the need to re-Boresight or re-calibrate the camera. This is particularly useful where trials dictate different camera/lens combinations and significantly reduces MTTR, in the unusual event of a failure, when spares are held in stores.
 

• Colour or Monochrome High Resolution CCD Sensor
• Standard 54x zoom lens, others optional
• Colour/3rd gen Intensifier changeover option
• Precisely aligned, replaceable camera/lens platform
• Sealed & pressurised housing
• Special mounting plates available for any system
• Built in control receiver reduces slip ring loading
• Complete with wiper & washer
• Edicated control panel available or serial control
• Multiple control keyboards
• Workshop jig available for pre-alignment
• Large range of options for customisation

The standard camera/lens system is a 460 TV line PAL/YC camera fitted with a 54X motorised zoom lens. The lens will zoom from 9.5mm through to 256mm, giving horizontal fields of view from 1.43° through to 38.6 ° (nom). The built in motorised X2 extender gives further range increase up to 512mm (0.72°). Use of smaller format sensors gives proportionately smaller fields of view and higher effective magnification. External range of X1.5,X2 and X3 can be fitted to increase the magnification.

Where colour by day/intensified by night systems are required, the standard camera lens system can be augmented with a supplementary changeover system. The changeover system is placed between the camera and lens. This can be done locally in the workshops. During daylight hours the changeover system is inactive and the images are passed through it from the lens to the camera using a clear optical field lens. When the light falls to around 100 lux (nominal and adjustable), the changeover system rotates the field lens out of the path and exchanges it for a 3rd generation intensifier with relay lens. The changeover system is a complete standalone unit and available as a field fitted option.

A full console can be supplied complete with 14" monitor or twin 9" monitors, ruggedised Video Cassette Recorder, Screen Writer (to insert date/time information and externally generated captions), and control panel. When used in conjunction with a moveable platform such as the VOS PT461, automatic search & acquisition, preset positions and surveillance sweeps can be initiated from the control console.

APPLICATIONS

Radar Boresight Camera Kinetheodite Acquisition Cameras Interdiction mission recording Gun Fire Control Ground based trials recording Boarding party safety surveillance Recording RAS operations Weapons trials Long Range Surveillance Dockyard Surveillance Helio landing deck supervision Vehicle mounted Systems