Eurosatory 2022: Lockheed Martin integrates new technologies for SkyKeeper system
16 June 2022
by Olivia Savage
Lockheed Martin SkyKeeper solution (pictured) was trialled in a NATO C-UAS trial in 2021. (Richard Turner)
Lockheed Martin is working with a number of European companies as part of their SkyKeeper solution.
Speaking to Janes , Richard Turner, ground-based air defence (GBAD) business development manager at Lockheed Martin, said that the company has been working with Danish company Weibel, UK-based Chess Dynamics, and Dutch company Robin Radar.
SkyKeeper is a modular battlespace management command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) system that can be integrated with any type of effector, kinetic or non-kinetic, from missiles to jammers. The scalable system offers airspace management, airspace surveillance, and GBAD command-and-control (C2).
Weibel, a company that specialises in counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UASs), is working with Lockheed Martin to deliver its XENTA-C X-band drone detection radar to the SkyKeeper solution, Turner detailed.
Lockheed Martin has also worked with Chess Dynamics, integrating their C-UAS radars, infrared and electro-optical sensors, he added.
Tuner explained that Lockheed Martin integrated the XENTA and Robin Radar's Elvira 2D radar into the SkyKeeper solution during the NATO's Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technical Interoperability Exercise (C-UAS TIE) in 2021.
Hadean, 4C Strategies integrate products to reduce training burden
18 April 2024
by Giles Ebbutt
A screenshot of the Hadean POLI constructive simulation displayed through the 4C Strategies Exonaut training management software. (Hadean)
Hadean and 4C Strategies have successfully integrated a constructive simulation with Exonaut exercise management software, utilising Hadean's spatial computing platform.
The integrated solution, displayed at the International Training Technology Exhibition & Conference (IT²EC) 2024 in London, enabled Hadean's Pattern of Life Indicator (POLI) constructive simulation to be controlled from within 4C Strategies Exonaut software.
Exonaut is widely used in the UK and NATO as an exercise management tool, while constructive simulation is fundamental to effective command and staff training. Integrating the two previously separate functions offers the potential to improve training.
Explaining the integration, Paul Steel, UK military sales director for 4C Strategies, told Janes
Thales to supply Netherlands with seven additional radars
16 April 2024
by Olivia Savage
The Netherlands has ordered seven additional GM200 MM/C radars from Thales after having ordered an initial nine in February 2019. Pictured is the first GM200 MM/C radar being handed over to the Royal Netherlands Army in Hengelo in February 2024. (Dutch MoD/Sgt Maj Gregory Fréni)
The Dutch Command Materiel and IT (COMMIT) procurement authority has ordered seven additional Ground Master 200 Multi-Mission/Compact (GM200 MM/C) radars from Thales.
The contract includes an option for two additional radars, according to a Thales announcement on 15 April.
The GM200 MM/C is a compact mobile radar that can detect, track, and classify a large number of targets including rockets, artillery shells, mortar rounds, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aircraft, helicopters, and cruise missiles.
For the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA), the radars will be mounted on Scania Gryphus 8×8 trucks to enable rapid deployment.
A Thales spokesperson was unable to comment to Janes on the delivery timeframes.
This latest contract follows an initial agreement in February 2019 for nine GM200 MM/C radars for EUR100–250 million (USD106–266 million) to replace its legacy TPQ-36 radars. Deliveries are expected to be completed by 2024. In February Janes
IT²EC 2024: Latest version of BISim's VBS4 to feature munition-equipped UAVs
11 April 2024
by Olivia Savage
VBS4 24.1, the latest version of BISim's VBS4 virtual simulation software pictured being used by MoD personnel with commercial-off-the-shelf hardware, is due to be released in May. (Bohemia Interactive Simulations )
The latest version of Bohemia Interactive Simulations' (BISim's) Virtual Battlespace 4 (VBS4) environment will feature munition-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the company announced at the International Training Technology Exhibition & Conference (IT2EC) 2024 held from 9 to 11 April in London.
VBS4 is a virtual desktop training environment with whole-earth rendering for tactical training, experimentation, and mission rehearsal.
The latest version – VBS4 24.1 – is due to be released by the end of May and will integrate all major gun-tank variants of the T-72 main battle tank and will include a new feature that allows any UAV to drop improvised munitions or have impact-detonating munitions, the company detailed.
Control AI will now also be default in VBS4 24.1, which the company says is a “big step towards removing all legacy ‘game' AI from the product”.
Lockheed Martin is working with a number of European companies as part of their SkyKeeper solution.
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