MMEK Demonstration · June 9, 2026
An afternoon and night of overwatch for a county SWAT team out of Pryor Field: the AStar's EO/IR picture on VECTOR and every officer on TAK, ending with a missing-person search under heavy tree canopy in full dark.
By the numbers
Figures from the VECTOR mission trail for the day. Remote-viewer counting wasn't in place yet for this event.
What was demonstrated
Officers joined the picture on their phones with a QR-code data package — iTAK and ATAK side by side — and saw the aircraft, each other and the broadcast markers in real time.
The night scenario put a person under heavy canopy. The thermal sensor and the moving map, with the team's positions on it, gave the search a picture nothing on the ground could.
The VECTOR /ops page gave the command post video, map and units without an account — and the Units page earned its keep with a full room on TAK.
How it went
On June 9 the AStar flew two sorties out of Pryor Field for a county SWAT team's training day — daylight overwatch on vehicle and residence objectives around Huntsville, then a night missing-person search under heavy tree canopy that ran well past midnight. Twenty-four units were on the TAK picture, most of them officers on phones set up that afternoon.
The find under canopy was hard, which was the point: it gave extended working time with the team and a clear list of improvements for the offering — pushing points from VECTOR straight to every TAK device, self-service onboarding from the /ops page, and cleaner unit and trail handling when a room full of people is on the map.
Footage from this flight
Daylight overwatch for the team: two vehicles at the objective held at zoom while the map keeps the address marker and the ground element in view.
The operator switches from colour EO to the thermal sensor over the objective house and back — heat signatures of the structure and vehicles against the yard, same gimbal, no re-acquisition.
As the light goes, thermal takes over: warm bodies in a field stand out white long before the EO picture is usable — the case for the IR sensor on a night search.
The team forming up at the vehicles seen from overwatch in thermal: every person and engine reads clearly in full dark.
A missing-person search at night under heavy tree canopy: the operator works the thermal sensor through the trees while TAK markers from the ground team show on the crew display.
Thermal scan along a tree line and creek with the moving map inset showing the aircraft's orbit over the search area.
The night search picture: the ground team's TAK positions (yellow) and the aircraft's orbit trails on the crew station map beside the thermal video — everyone sees the same picture.
More clips in the In Action gallery.
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