The United States awarded Raytheon a $197 million contract to provide seven MS-110 reconnaissance pods to the Polish Air Force.
According to Defence Blog, the announcement was made by the company itself on January 28. The work will be carried out in Westford, Massachusetts (USA), and is scheduled to be completed by August 2031.
The contract, issued by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, includes the production of seven MS-110 reconnaissance pods, as well as aircraft integration and engineering support.
The MS-110 is an advanced airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) pod designed to provide wide-area, long-range imaging in both day and night conditions. The system uses multispectral sensors combined with onboard processing to provide rapid image analysis during flight operations.
According to Raytheon, the MS-110 integrates artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to process and interpret images at speed, reducing the time between collection and exploitation.
“The MS-110 system brings advanced capability, pushing next-generation processing to the tactical edge to defeat camouflage and decoys almost in real time,” said Dan Theisen, President of Advanced Products and Solutions.
“This capability enables the US and our allies to maintain a strategic advantage in an evolving global defense environment, strengthening survivability, responsiveness, and wide-area surveillance.”
The pods are compatible with a wide range of aircraft, including advanced fighter jets, maritime patrol aircraft, special mission platforms, and medium-altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.
This flexibility allows air forces to deploy the system across different mission sets without modifying the primary aircraft systems.
As part of NATO’s reconnaissance and intelligence efforts on the eastern flank, Poland will be able to use the pods for independent wide-area surveillance missions while contributing data directly to allied networks.
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