The Austrian Armed Forces and Rheinmetall have efficiently examined the leased Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS), which had been delivered in Might 2022, as a part of a practical train. Rheinmetall’s deployable C-sUAS system is at the moment being evaluated by the Austrian Armed Forces alongside different techniques as a part of the Countering Rising Air Threats (C-EAT) challenge. Following the profitable checks, the Austrian Armed Forces have now prolonged the lease contract by seven months.
After the coaching on the system had been accomplished, the operational functionality of the Rheinmetall C-sUAS system was now to be examined as intensively as potential beneath actual situations. For this goal, a classy take a look at programme was developed, which included each take a look at and practical assault flights by small drones. The goal was to detect and clearly confirm these drones as early as potential utilizing a broadly based mostly sensor combine. A potential battle in opposition to these enemy drones was demonstrated via jammers. A particular spotlight was the introduction of the goal queuing gadget by pill from the higher-level command and management system to the jammer operator.
The big variety of drones used – from commercially out there drones to fashions with jet propulsion to self-built drones managed in line with the LTE cellular radio normal – clearly confirmed that fashionable drone defence can solely be effectively managed in a community.
“A profitable and intensive take a look at week offered a large number of essential insights and experiences,” stated Matthias Diem, Vice President Counter Drones and Aviation Markets. “From our perspective, the train was an instructive instance of how innovation-oriented armed forces, along with trade, can achieve the mandatory insights to develop and adapt tomorrow’s applied sciences for potential new threats from the air at an early stage. An enormous thanks goes to the Air Power and Anti-Plane Defence College in Langenlebarn for the good organisation and execution of this forward-looking train.”
The Austrian armed forces had chosen Rheinmetall’s C-sUAS system and loaned it out for a six-month interval of testing and analysis. In Might 2022 Rheinmetall Air Defence AG shipped the most recent model of its quickly deployable counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-sUAS) to the Austrian army. This lease contract has now been prolonged.
The system contains two shelter models, enabling speedy deployment on normal trailers and vehicles. The sensor unit elevates routinely and may be outfitted with varied detection applied sciences, together with X-band and S-band radar, passive emitter locator, ADS-B receiver and others if required. An built-in, stabilised 360° electro-optical PTZ sensor offers state-of-the-art verification and monitoring capabilities.
Primarily based on the tried-and-tested Oerlikon Skymaster command and management system, the separate C2 shelter is a completely fledged operator workstation. Skymaster delivers an excellent degree of sensor knowledge fusion and a number of operational features, together with scalability to built-in goal cueing gadgets and effectors for various countermeasures in addition to hyperlinks to larger echelons.
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