Een samenraapsel van het interessantste nieuws van laatste maanden;
● Airbus Wingman unveiled
● Protective decoy en EW pods voor high value assets zoals hier een P8 poseideon.
"The decoy’s fiber optic tether also allows it to receive specific commands, including about what kinds of signals to pump out to respond to certain threats" Kan niet enkel spoofen maar ook jammen.
● Een gelijkaardig maar nog veel geavanceerder systeem; Netted Emulation of Multi-Element Signature against Integrated Sensors - NEMESIS
Hier een onderdeel ervan, NOMAD Netted Offboard Miniature Decoy.
"the Navy has been developing and integrating multiple types of unmanned vehicles, shipboard and submarine systems, countermeasures and electronic warfare payloads, and communication technologies to give it the ability to project what is, in essence, phantom fleets of aircraft, ships, and submarines. These realistic-looking false signatures and decoys have the ability to appear seamlessly across disparate and geographically separated enemy sensor systems located both above and below the ocean’s surface. As a result, this networked and cooperative electronic warfare concept brings an unprecedented level of guileful fidelity to the fight. It’s not just about disrupting the enemy’s capabilities or confusing them at a command and control level but also about making their sensors tell them the same falsehoods across large swathes of the battlespace.”
● Here's an XQ-58 Valkyrie drone dropping an Altius 600 drone. Plan is dat deze drone packing cruise missiles tot diep in enemy territory gaat krijgen. Dat zou dus een drone zijn, die een drone missile vol met drones dropt. Xzibit would be proud.
● Kratos hun programma is stilaan volwassen aan het worden want ondertussen zijn de eerste operationele MQ-58s een feit. (X staat voor experimenteel, M voor multi role fighter die effectief in gebruik zijn) De USMC heeft ze nu officieel in dienst.
During test flights the XQ-58 demonstrated the ability to fly in concert with two F-35 aircraft and was able to deliver an integrated electronic attack (EA) capability. The XQ-58A’s advanced EA payload autonomously detected, identified, and geolocated multiple tactically relevant targets of interest, transmitted emitter target track coordinates to collaborative assets, and successfully presented non-kinetic electronic attack effects against multiple emitters, suppressing enemy air defenses. Die testvluchten waren duidelijk succesvol want nu gaan ze dus actief in dienst.
● 4 genetwerkte LRASMS hebben onderstaand concept filmpje dat 8 jaar geleden uitgebracht werd succesvol in praktijk uitgevoerd.
Northrop Grumman Manta Ray
designed for “long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments where humans can’t go,”
“an autonomous underwater vehicle that’s out operating on its own, harvesting energy and completing whatever mission it’s been given.” In order to achieve this, Northrop’s demonstration vehicle features “energy-saving technologies,” the exact nature of which remain murky, allowing it to anchor on the seafloor and hibernate in a low-power state. While many UUVs are constrained by the amount of stored energy they can carry onboard, Northrop-Seatrec’s “Mission Unlimited Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Station” purports to solve this issue and power the Manta over near-unlimited distances and durations. The Mission Unlimited UUV Station combines Seatrec’s Thermal Energy Pod, which extracts energy from the ocean’s thermal gradient — meaning the difference in temperature between warmer mixed water near the surface and colder water below — and converts it to electricity, with Northrop’s invention of a self-insulating, wet-mate electrical connector, enabling submerged underwater connections.
● Chinese WZ-7s are flying ISR missions near the Philippines
Anduril Ghost Shark revealed and already undergoing sea trials
● Bradleys being retrofitted with counter drone system
● General Atomics XQ-67 breaks cover
● The U.S. Air Force is now operating its Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft, or ULTRA, from Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates
Specifications of the drone include an endurance of up to 80 hours while carrying a payload of more than 400 pounds.
arstechnica.com
