System enables aircraft to share defensive aids

摘要

Aircraft defences such as onboard lasers that destroy approaching missiles could become easier and cheaper to install thanks to Ministry of Defence (MoD) research. Future aircraft, including UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), could integrate current and new technologies for sensing and reacting to airborne threats as part of a single system under development at the MoD's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory pSTL). This would allow the air forces to more easily upgrade existing vehicles and more easily reprogram such defensive aids systems (DAS) for different missions. The new system, referred to as a common defensive aids system (CDAS), would enable the MoD to more fully exploit competition in the defence market, because technologies built by different contractors could be used together.