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2020-04-01

HENSOLDT Offers Asia Innovative Sensor Solutions

At DEFEXPO 2020, HENSOLDT presented its broad range of sensor solutions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. HENSOLDT presented a very precise picture of the airspace covered by its true passive radar system TwInvis, which uses several transmission sources from various locations to interconnect several sensors into one sensor cluster.

As well as improving safety and operational effectiveness for air, land and security, HENSOLDT’s Lucknow, India showcase demonstrated that one of the company’s core areas of expertise lies in recognising threats and protecting end users. The transmitters and the TwInvis sensors can be separated from each other at distances of up to 100 kilometres. Thus, unlike systems based on passive emitter tracking, requiring aircraft to emit, TwInvis can be viewed as a true passive system not dependent on any such transmission.

Alongside TwInvis, HENSOLDT also displayed its innovative airborne multifunction, the ISR radar PrecISR 1000, providing armed forces and border protection authorities with extremely high situational awareness and an extremely short reaction time. The software-defined radar translates the latest achievements in active array antennas (GaN-based AESA tiles) and digital receiver technology into a scalable high-performance sensor installed aboard helicopters, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and fixed-wing mission aircraft.

A ﬂexible and modular self-protection suite comprising of a 3rd-generation UV technology-based missile warning system with beam rider capabilities, HENSOLDT’s Airborne Missile Protection System (AMPS) was also on display in Lucknow. This fully digital, modular and scalable laser system offers optimal weight, power and price performance for airborne platforms, while the modularity of Kalaetron allows seamless, future scaling-up of RWR to ESM and ELINT by adding other components.

Counter-UAV System Xpeller

Offering a low false alarm rate and high probability of interception, HENSOLDT took the opportunity of Lucknow to showcase its counter-UAV system Xpeller for 24/7 protection of UAVs from illicit intrusions over critical areas. The system is highly modular and combines numerous sensors (radar, electro-optics and direction finders) even at long ranges, while target neutralisation effectors like jammers and drone catchers work through a single Command and Control system (C2), enabling agencies to analyse and respond collectively in addition to carrying out their individual requirements.

Recently, HENSOLDT and MyDefence received an order from a south-east Asian customer for a mobile integrated counter-UAS system integrated into anti-drone vehicles to monitor the challenging airspace of today’s urban environments. The order marks another chapter in the success story of HENSOLDT’s modular counter-UAS system Xpeller and MyDefence’ robust RF-sensors and C2-system.

The system for the civilian customer consists of one unit of HENSOLDT’s Spexer 360 radar to which Denmark’s MyDefence company has added their networked Watchdog 200 Direction Finding radio frequency drone detector (WD200), as well as the command and control alarm system. The system will now be used in an urban environment in a new challenge for the counter-UAS solution.

The counter-UAS suite allows the user to see a threat detected by the system on a map with an overlay of chosen zones, where an alarm is instantly displayed on the server screen.

HENSOLDT’s modular Xpeller system has, for instance, proven its performance several times. In 2019, it monitored the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France protected the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget and secured the French national parade in Paris.

MyDefence’ RF sensors have been in operational use since 2015 for military and civilian customers, while they have protected numerous soldiers in the U.S. Army in rural and urban conflict areas.

New Kalaetron SIGINT Warner

Communications and radar frequency bands are merging more and more frequently because SIGINT systems need to cover extremely large bandwidths and distinguish different types of signals with utmost precision. Knowledge of the interaction of communications and radar signals is an invaluable asset for battlefield dominance and here the Kalaetron system doesn’t just provide warning against radar threats, but can be used for strategic signals intelligence in an enhanced configuration.

Due to its fully digital design, the new Kalaetron radar warner detects and identifies threats incredibly quickly with a very low false alarm rate over an extremely wide frequency range, enabling ‘Kalaetron Integral’ to fulfil missions currently requiring the deployment of several specific COMINT and ELINT systems. Moreover, the ‘Kalaetron Integral’ SIGINT system works over an extremely wide frequency range from 20 MHz to 40 GHz, and by means of automated resource allocation and software-defined tasks, communications and radar signals, it detects, analyses and monitors via a single system, evaluating the relationships between those emissions.

The ‘Kalaetron Integral’ SIGINT uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify new threat patterns from a huge amount of collected raw data and depicts an Electronic Order of Battlefield (EOB) during the mission. As a modular system, this new Kalaetron product line is available in a wide variety of configurations to respond to different customer requirements and can be installed on a wide variety of platforms, such as business jets, transport aircraft and UAVs.

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