The Spanish system house Indra has successfully completed the integration and test phase of the Lanza 3D radar in the Spanish province of Toledo. From now on, the Air Surveillance Squadron 2 (EVA-2) of the Spanish Aerospace Forces will use the device to monitor the central part of the peninsula.
The project is part of a comprehensive effort to modernise the Spanish armed forces’ air surveillance and control system. A total of five systems are to join the Spanish Air Force. These systems are divided into four permanently installed Lanza 3D Long Range Radar (LRR) and one deployable Lanza 3D Long-range Tactical Radar (LTR-25). Development projects are also part of the modernisation. In this way, technical upgrades over the system’s service life are intended to further enable the system and delay obsolescence.
In addition to Spanish national interests, the radars also benefit NATO air surveillance. The radars feed the NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence System (NATINAMDS) with data.
‘The technologies used in the development of the radar also have countless civilian applications and are of strategic importance for the development of the information societies in which we live,’ said Francisco Jiménez, Head of Business Development at Defence Systems. We are one of the most advanced countries in the world when it comes to air surveillance, he continued.
