AOG Solutions · UH-72 Lakota Program
Real flight footage from the MMEK-equipped UH-72 Lakota — the operator's screen, the sensor, and the tactical picture the ground element sees. Short clips, sized for any network.
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.
Shotover M2 tracking the UH-72B Lakota during the Government Review & Decision flight test — the operator-screen feed, exactly what the crew station shows with moving map and sensor overlays.
The MMEK-equipped UH-72B on the ramp — sensor turret, searchlight and antennas in place.
Engine run-up in IR, then colour: the thermal signature builds as the aircraft spools up.
A 1.4° hold on the Lakota in formation over farmland.
Nose-on tracking with a brief switch to IR and back.
The tightest look at the installed hardware in the archive: turret and searchlight in flight.
Tracking the Lakota over dark terrain on the thermal sensor.
Runway and taxiway lighting from ~1,100 ft, the ORION searchlight sweeping the approach, and the operator switching between EO and IR on the way in.
Pilot and crew display at the station.
IR designator and thermal crew on the night ramp.
Highlights from the June 3 test flight: sensor slews, target tracking, wide-to-narrow transitions and the crew display in use. No narration.
Head-on hold at 2.4° field of view: the gimbal keeps the Lakota centred as it closes, searchlight lit.
A steady 1.8° hold on the Lakota in profile: the aircraft stays locked while the fields stream past beneath it.
Closing from wide to ×5 nose-on while the track holds.
A 1.9° nose-on hold on the Lakota.
Colour EO over farmland, then the HOT-IR sensor mid-track: engines and exhaust flare white against the cool ground. Same gimbal, same target, no re-acquisition.
A line of vehicles from directly overhead.
Thermal sweep of a parking lot, then a single truck picked out and held.
A hoist evolution on a rooftop tracked from overhead: a tight frame on the crew, then a pull-back to the aircraft repositioning. Faces and gear resolvable from stand-off altitude.
Holding a DPS helicopter low over the brush.
From 4° to 1.3° field of view on an airliner on approach.
Vehicles at a training compound held on a single point for 52 s — geo-lock stability.
Operation Wolverine: the sensor watches a drone deliver to the objective compound while the ground element moves — captured from the crew display.
Day 3, both aircraft flying: the training compound held on the 4K narrow sensor — vehicles, structures and personnel at the objective before the assault.
A UH-60 on the landing zone with the ground vehicle alongside, held from stand-off — the kind of picture a commander watched live on VECTOR from 19 states.
Ground element moving along the range road with vehicles staged — individual soldiers resolvable from altitude on the narrow sensor.
An AH-64 tracked air-to-air on the narrow sensor: the gimbal holds the aircraft while the background streams past.
The staging area from overhead — vehicles, tentage and personnel laid out for the exercise, one frame of the wide-area picture the range controllers had all day.
Day 2, federal law-enforcement audience: a motorcycle training course held from stand-off altitude, riders and cones resolvable, the picture live to remote viewers in 14 states.
The operator display with TAK markers drawn over the live video — named points on the ridge line as the sensor sweeps, the same points every TAK user holds on their map.
A steady hold on the Capitol dome from stand-off with range and altitude read-outs — gimbal stabilisation and range-finding on a fixed target.
Split-screen on the operator display: colour EO and thermal on the same vehicle at once, with range and speed read-outs from the sensor. Day 1 for the Utah Army and Air National Guard.
A hiker-search scenario: the sensor holds a person on the trail while the moving map shows the sensor footprint on terrain — what a ground team sees on TAK at the same moment.
Events
A live demonstration of MMEK's tactical picture from the AStar camera ship: TAK map presence, the AOG VECTOR common operating picture, and beyond-line-of-sight video from two sources — with no ground station.
The AStar camera ship flying the Texas search-and-rescue exercise out of San Antonio: live Shotover EO/IR to the exercise TOC and to remote viewers nationwide over the aircraft's own Starlink, with the rescue sites, waypoints and crew positions on one TAK picture.
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.
Three days in Utah with the Utah Army and Air National Guard, a federal law-enforcement audience, and Operation Wolverine on the range — the first time the MMEK picture was streamed live, beyond line of sight, to viewers across the country.
MMEK integrates EO/IR, multi-band radio, MANET networking and TAK into a single certified installation for the UH-72. Talk to AOG about a demonstration or a fielding plan for your unit.
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