Counter Battery
This all fuels the need to redefine effective approaches in counter battery, in particular for the functions usually fulfilled by weapon location radars: target acquisition, fire control and prediction of impacts.
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Product
Mobile Sound Ranging Array
MSRA
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In a peer to peer conflict, weapon location radars used for counter battery purposes will be extremely vulnerable.With aerial/satellite based surveillance available for the opponent, radars will be seen. With electronic warfare means being omnipresent, radars will be triangulated and jammed. There is an urgent need for 24/7 persistent surveillance with (preferably) passive sensors. With mobility being the key for survival on the battlefield, rapid re-deployable, or even truly mobile sensor capabilities are required. Therefore, the traditional sheer sound pressure based sound ranging capability becomes obsolete, as the triangular footprint of the sensor nodes is too large to be installed on a manned, or unmanned platform. With the trend towards longer ranges and “shoot and scoot” drills, the concept of capturing the muzzle blast noise becomes questionable, as the speed of sound is too slow to provide timely localizations.
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Product
Acoustic Target Impact Localization System
ATILS
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In peace time, for training purposes, artillery units conduct their frequent target practicing.Both the skills of the gunners and the forward observers need to be improved, their communication cycle to be shortened.Forward observing is a dangerous task during war time, causing a justification to find other ways to localize impacts and adjust fires.Furthermore, the sheer lack of a line of sight, because of topography and/or weather, also thrives the need for other solutions to determine the impact coordinates.
