The development of air defence solutions to counter ever-evolving threats 29 November 2018
Ian Briggs
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▌ Where are we now? Historic VSHORAD requirements
Current air defence landscape in which we operate
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▌ Where are we going? How are the air defence threats evolving? The challenge for missile designers - Customer pull
▌ How do we get there? System-level approach to concept development Engineering-level concept design
- Technology push
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Where are we now?
▌ Existing VSHORAD requirements
Relatively few targets
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Well-defined target set
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Traditional near-peer enemy - Led to the creation of highly-specialised effects
FGAs
Attack helicopters Cruise missiles
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Where are we now? STARStreak-HVM
▌ STARStreak-HVM
Innovative approach to the customer needs
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High Velocity Missile
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- Mach 3 following two-stage motor burn - Delivers 3 high-energy hittiles to maximise the probability of hit - Darts penetrate the target before warhead detonation Minimises chance of reaction from targets Not susceptible to countermeasures Designed to be highly effective against FGAs and late unmasking targets
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Where are we now? LMM
▌ LMM
Complementary missile to STARStreak-
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HVM
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Multirole
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- Surface-to-air (CS-GBAD) - Air-to-surface (FASGW-L) - Surface-to-surface (land and maritime force protection) Additional capability against UAS and point-defence against cruise missiles - Addition of a blast fragmentation warhead and proximity fuze
Effective out to 6 km
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Where are we now? STARStreak-HVM & LMM
Altitude
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Anti radiation missile
Class 2 UAV Ground attack aircraft
Air ground missile
Attack Helicopter ATGW
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Where are we going? Changing landscape of air defence
Hypersonic Cruise
Tactical Ballistic missile
Altitude
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300mm Rocket
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Anti radiation missile 120mm Rocket Glide bomb
Class 3 UAV
120mm mortar
Class 2 UAV Ground attack aircraft
C-UAS Air ground missile
Micro UAV Traditional CS-GBADAttack Helicopter ATGW Nano UAV
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Changing landscape of air defence
▌ Rapid evolution of threat capability and application
▌ Proliferation of smaller targets
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UAVs, including swarms
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- ▌ Trend towards increased standoff of the traditional threat
What are the implications of increased range? - Do we need a different approach to guidance and identification? - Places increased demand on guidance accuracy Gives the target low observability - Implications for sensors ▌ Cannot guarantee air superiority May have time-limited pockets of superiority Expect persistent UAVs
Need to increase combat mass
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Changing landscape of air defence
▌ Global picture: multiple international customers
Each with different requirement sets within the air defence landscape
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- Importance of having an agile response
Ability to maintain or reduce time-to-action despite increasing complexity of response (critical decision chain)
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Changing landscape of air defence
▌ Expect the airspace to be saturated
Need increased combat mass to counter the increased diversity of threat
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Expect multiple simultaneous targets
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- Places increasing strain on the Fire Control System rather than the effector
- Lends itself to a coordinated system-level approach
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Changing landscape of air defence - summary
▌ Important to recognise that the traditional threat set still exists
Likely to still be a need for STARStreak/LMM-type
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capability
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Range has been extended - Does our approach change? – Target the munition rather than platform? – Change our CONOPS approach? – How do we define a mission success?
It now exists within a much more complex and challenging air defence landscape - The threat has reacted and adapted to current air defence measures
- We need to pre-empt the enemy response
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▌ How do we get there?
Part 1: Concept development approach
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Concept development approach
▌ Concept design cycle
Customer requirements
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Sub-systems
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- Requirement pull - Technology push Air Defence solutions - Effectors - Fire Control System - Detection - Decision-making Operational Assessment
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Concept development approach
▌Thales Battlelab
Virtual prototyping tool
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- Hardware-in-the-loop
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environment
- Explore situations with customers – Individual platforms – Overall solutions – System of Systems - Develop/demonstrate CONOPS - Quick turnaround Also inform new concepts at an early stage of the design cycle
- Allows the user to be an integral part of the process
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Concept development approach
▌ We can implement spiral development cycles
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Faster turnaround
Requires a highly-skilled workforce
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▌ Exploit commonality, modularity, re-use Modular family of weapons to cover a wide number of targets/ranges – ‘layered approach’ Leads to a flexible solution to meet a wide range of customer needs Allows for adaptability if requirements change Lends itself to future subsystem upgrades Plug-and-play operation
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▌ How do we get there?
Part 2: Concept design
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Concept design
INCREASED MULTIPLE SMALLER FIRE & FORGET IMPROVED SIMULTANEOUS
STAND-OFF TARGETS TARGETS (FIRE & MOVE) ACCURACY
REQs
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- ROCKET MOTOR WARHEAD GUIDANCE PLATFORM
TECHAREAS
NOVEL LASER BEAM DATA TRADITIONAL PROPELLANTS RIDING COORDINATION
THRUST NOVEL SOLUTIONS MULTI-CHANNEL REMOTE UNITS MANAGEMENT (EMP/DEW, etc) BEAM RIDING
TERMINAL SEMI-ACTIVE INTELLIGENT DIRECTED EFFECT
TECHSOLUTIONS CONTROL BEAM RIDING ALGORITHMS
TARGET SEEKERS
MANAGEMENT
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▌ Conclusions
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Conclusions
▌ We can expect an evolutionary threat development
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Traditional threat set still exists, but at increased stand-off
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- ▌ Need to be able to address this evolution of the threat
Develop our evaluation processes Build and maintain a UK-level experienced skills base Use technology awareness to influence the customers’ direction ▌ Develop innovative solutions to meet the customer requirements Layered, modular approach Maximise coverage
Make better use of digital technology
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