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Nishizuka, Reid Kijiro, Capt.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Honolulu
Last Address Kandahar, Afghanistan
Casualty Date Apr 27, 2013
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Afghanistan
Conflict Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
Location of Interment National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (VA) - Honolulu, Hawaii
Aircraft/Missile Information
The King Air 350 Special Mission version is available as a surveillance aircraft fitted with cameras. A maritime patrol version capable of carrying up to 1,300kg mission equipment is equipped with air and sea search radar and a forward-looking infrared. Life rafts and survival kits can be dropped through a hatch.
A Guardian RC-350 military electronic intelligence version is capable of loitering on-station for over six hours at an altitude of 10,500m. The aircraft can monitor radar emissions in the range 20MHz to 18GHz and can intercept communications in the bands 20MHz to 1.4GHz.
The aircraft's mission equipment includes a Raytheon AN/ALQ-142 electronic support measures system with the antennae installed in wingtip pods, a Watkins Johnson radio communications interceptor type 9195C, a Cubic secure digital up and down data link, a Honeywell laser inertial navigation system and a global positioning system. The communications intelligence systems antennae are installed in an under-fuselage fairing.
