RAPTOR

DB-110 ('dual-band 110-inch focal length') was developed as an exportable derivative of the U-2's Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS-2).

[2] It represents a shift for airborne tactical reconnaissance systems from visible light, daylight-only film-based systems to dual-band day and night digital imaging with real-time downlinking.

[3] The DB-110 remains the only comparable LOROP (Long-Range Oblique Photography) pod to have been demonstrated in use on tactical aircraft.

[3][4] DB-110 installations, such as RAPTOR, also include a reconnaissance mission planning system (RMPS).

Planned missions produce route cards for a pilot's kneeboard, are downloaded to route planning systems on either the recon aircraft or AWACS aircraft and are placed on a PCMCIA card that is used to load the pod itself with sensor tasking information.

An image taken by a RAPTOR pod of flooding in the United Kingdom during 2014
An RAF GR4 equipped with a RAPTOR pod beneath its fuselage in 2007