Tampa, Florida – Special operators Look in Industry for a series of upgraded their fixed wing aircraft, such as radio frequency countermeasures, new aerial refueling methods and improved networking.
During the annual week of special forces of SOF SOF Foundation SOF SOF operations, the managers of the special operations command who develop planes shared these updates and others that are necessary for its largest to its smallest platforms.
For a key platform program, the MC-130J Talon III combat, the operators envisage the plane as a link on the battlefield, connecting the lowest level operator to the ground with space, air and even orders in the fatherland.
To do this, the MC-130J will need new capacities. They are currently testing land and avoidance technology that includes dynamic rejuvenium.
They will also need a network of plane systems to operate with satellite communications, radio signals, data links and data fusion over several platforms.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, the aircraft requires improved radiofrequency countermeasures and a considerably more processing power for all data in difficulty.
The next steps include a capacity press release that will include the technology of the Tactical Mission Route, as well as the tactical flight management and defensive countermeasures, as well as integrated training systems to simulate more complex missions.
Beyond these capacities, operators seek to extend the scope and scope of the plane, improve its communication systems, advance its defensive systems, increase its payload capacity for various mission sets and air capacities and precision landing capacity, said Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Sturgeon, responsible for the mobility of the wing set by the program of the program.
The recently named OA-1K Skyraider II is also on the upgrade list, because Socom wants useful charges of modular sensors and weapons improvements for the propeller-focused aircraft, said Lieutenant-Colonel Shawna Matthys, who runs the integrated strike program.
For the Skyraider and AC-1330J Ghostrider, those responsible are looking for longer weapons systems for disputed environments, launched wool ammunition and collaborative weapons options, Matthys said.
In the entire striking portfolio, which affects almost all fixed wing platforms, Matthys has declared that these ammunition requires increased automation and autonomy, advanced navigation and detection and secure and resilient communications, as well as modular payload effects.
This gives operators more options to target and destroy targets on various missions.
For its drones, such as the MQ-9A and the MQ-1C, special operators are looking for hardened data and communications links, “easily adaptable autonomous behavior profiles”, the use of artificial intelligence and automatic learning to reduce the requirements of the bandwidth of data links and the use of autonomy for the whole killing chain, said Branddi Evans, Monitoring and a recruit for the PEO-Fixed WISED.
From this month, the Office Airborne Airborne Airborne Program will seek to give operators a multi-aircraft control software, increase survival and integrate autonomy into existing systems, Evans said.
For the PSS platforms, such as U-28 and DHC-8 (stamp), managers seek to improve the sensors, integrate all-time capacities and automate the aspects of the functioning of aircraft to reduce the workload of the crew, as well as the processing of on-board data.
