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Specifications - Mineseeker Mine Detection System, United Kingdom
| Air Vehicle |
| Sensors | |
| Electro-optical sensor | Wescam camera |
| Radar | |
| Range resolution | 5 cm |
| Azimuthal resolution | 0.5 m |
| Instantaneous bandwidth | 3 GHz over |
| Frequency range | 200 MHz to over 3GHz. |
| Pulsewidth of impulse waveforms | > 100 pseconds |
| Peak power | 1 MW |
| Airship dimensions | |
| Volume | 1,900 cu m helium gas |
| Length | 40 m |
| Height | 13 m |
| Width | 11 m |
| Weight | 2000 kg |
| Gondola dimensions | |
| Length | 4 m |
| Width | 1.5 m |
| Seating | 5, pilot + 4 operations crew |
| Engines | |
| Engines | 2 x Limbach L-2000 |
| Engine power | 2 x 68 hp |
| Fuel capacity | 69 US gallons |
| Performance | |
| Maximum lift | 560 kg |
| Maximum airspeed | 45 knots |
| Airborne duration on station | 13 hours |
| Avionics | |
| Navigation/ communications | 2 sets King 155 |
| Mode C transponder | King KT76A |
| VOR/ILS (VHF radio ranging/Instrument landing system) | KI 204 |
| Global positioning system | Apollo 820 |
| Flight instrumentation | |
| ASI air speed indicator | United 8000 B510 |
| AH artificial horizon | |
| DG directional gyroscope | |
| TRI turn rate indicator | |
| Variometer | |
| Altimeter | United 5934 PAD-1 |