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Activity title:
Air Platform Generic Self-Defence
Activity Reference:
SCI-354
Panel:
SCI
Security Classification:
Other
Status:
Active
Activity type:
RTG
Start date:
2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
Actual End date:
2026-01-17T00:00:00Z
Keywords:
Air Survivability, Defensive Aids, Directed Energy Weapons DEW, Electronic Warfare EW, Missiles, Systems Integration, ThreatAgnostic Countermeasures CMs
Background:
Air platform self-defense systems must protect the platform from incoming projectile and missile threats, throughout its flight envelope, and regardless of mission type. Current defensive systems are mostly soft-kill based and specific to particular types of threat. New threats and variants force a constant race to upgrade and update sensors, effectors and techniques, and to test and prove them. Whilst there is active development of soft-kill to become less specific to threat type, the longer term approach is to move to generic hard-kill defences to all types of hostile attack. Achieving such goals will not be quick, easy or cheap; nor will any single technical advance solve all problems. Shared effort will be required.
Potential hard-kill technologies are currently at widely differing TRLs, and with differing knowledge bases. A one year exploratory team (SCI ET-055) has identified and ranked countermeasure candidates against expected priority gaps, and across all air platform types. It has identified associated technology and knowledge gaps for follow-up. NATO NAFAG ACG3 SG/2 has endorsed the ET’s findings and tasked it to produce this proposal.
Objectives:
In continuation of the work started by ET-055:
• Capture the current state of the art in emerging (hard-kill) countermeasure technologies and relevant research across NATO STO and NATO industrial sector, as well as any relevant prediction models, simulations, surrogate systems and trials.
o Encourage collaborative advancement in these areas. Promote new or extended - remit NATO teams in identified gap areas.
• Scope and bound the issues and priorities in this area, assessing the future threat, and developing understanding of the capabilities of novel and emerging technologies.
• Generate and feed requirements for sensors, effectors, integration, modelling into SG/2 COIs.
• Generate and recommend hard-kill countermeasure – specific taskings into SG/2’s existing COIs, including their investigations, modelling work, and trials.
Topics:
Air platform hard-kill self-defence and mutual (co-operative) defence; future-looking 2030-40.
• Emerging threats to air platforms, expanding upon the U/C database from ET-055 and expanding key areas into detail at higher classification. Study of vulnerabilities to the countermeasures considered, including modelling and physical surrogates. Investigation of likely threat counter-countermeasures to hard-kill.
• List modelling capabilities across NATO; analyse their features, accuracy and interoperability.
• Understanding of the effects of countermeasures on threat engagements; simulation and experimentation. Improved understanding of, and validation of, keep-out ranges. A modelling framework for assessment of the flight behavior of damaged threats.
• Technical feasibility of Laser DEW, RFDEW, Interceptor and UAS-countermeasures; identification and exploration of critical issues, concept development, and recommendations for trials work.
• Work up of example systems, technical and cost aspects including time-lines, dwell or flight times required for effect, host platform and CM sensor requirements, tracking requirements, system architectures and NDAS issues. Work up use cases (engagement vignettes); end-to-end modelling. CONOPS, tactical advantage and assessment of effectiveness including multi-threat scenarios. Modelling and simulation to support these questions.
• Hard-kill soft-kill synergy. Multipurpose concepts.
• NATO response to adversary development of hard-kill countermeasures
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Created at 19/05/2022 11:00 by System Account
Last modified at 16/05/2024 07:00 by System Account
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