The UK's capability to collect intelligence from airborne platforms will be affected by the impending retirement of the Sentinel R1 and Tornado, but other platforms are poised to fill the gap according to one senior RAF official.
Speaking recently to journalists, the former air component commander for UK operations in Iraq and Syria, Air Cdr Johnny Stringer, said the UK's requirement for ISR will remain high despite a number of planned capability cuts to the RAF’s surveillance fleet in coming years.
These include the retirement of the Sentinel R1 ground surveillance aircraft by 2021 as well as the loss of
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Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
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