TATV Spotlight: How Collins Aerospace sees clearly for C130 modernisation

One major talking point at the World Defense Show (Riyadh March 6-9) will be the modernisation programme for the Royal Saudi Air Force’s fleet of C130s – the second largest fleet in the world after the USA.
 

One of the major contenders is Collins Aerospace, part of Raytheon Technologies, which is showing its solutions to bring the latest technology to the Hercules fleet.

Rich Kerslake, director business development for military avionics and helicopters talks to Alan Peaford about the technology.

At the core is the Collins Enhanced Vision System (EVS) which uses multiple wave-length cameras to “see-through” poor visibility conditions better than the human eye. The images are shown on head-up displays, allowing pilots to better identify the runway environment in all weather conditions including fog, haze, snow, smoke, dust, blowing sand and low illumination night-time operations.

Kerslake explains how the system works and why it is so valuable to the C-130 programme.

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Alan Peaford

Alan Peaford MBE

Alan is a regular broadcaster and is the consultant editor-in-chief and presenter for Times Aerospace TV and is a regular commentator on aviation issues for many global broadcasting channels. He is conference chairman of the Aviation Africa summit and the Aviation MENA summit and has moderated or chaired conferences for organisations such as IATA, DCAA, the Global Aerospace Summit and business aviation associations in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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