The unit has two OH-58 helicopters equipped with powerful searchlights and a camera with an 18:1 zoom that can be directed in a complete circle as well as 90 degrees up and down. The camera can videotape action or make still pictures, and the on-screen image can be frozen to look for details.
A Forward Looking Infrared system, known as FLIR, will detect a temperature change as small as three-hundredths of 1 degree Celsius.