U.K. Balloon Goes Up Over Afghanistan

By Guy Norris

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — U.K. forward operating bases in Afghanistan will be bolstered by the deployment of aerostat-mounted persistent ground surveillance systems (PGSS), following the successful clearance of integration issues with the British Army’s Cortez base surveillance control system.

A British Army Cortez team, working with the U.S. PGSS unit at Empire Challenge (EC) 2010, an intelligence ...

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