U.S. Army Completes Divestment of A-ISR Turboprop Fleet as It Shifts to HADES Modernisation

U.S. Army completes divestment of A-ISR turboprop fleet as it shifts to HADES modernisation

The Guardrail system first entered service in 1971 in Europe, monitoring Soviet Bloc forces before later supporting operations such as Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Guardrail and ARL-M aircraft also supported Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and long-standing missions in Korea, while EMARSS joined the fleet in 2013 and deployed globally from 2016.     Over time, the Army modernised the fleet, including the Guardrail Common S…

U.S. Army Completes Retirement of Aerial ISR Turboprop Fleet

The legacy ISR fleet of RC-12X Guardrail, MC-12S EMARSS and the EO-5C ARL-M turboprops will be replaced by the jet-powered High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES). The U.S. Army has completed the divestment of its three A-ISR (Aerial-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) aircraft types, including the RC-12X Guardrail, MC-12S EMARSS-M (Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and […]