During a conflict between two states, the first attack strategy is to establish air superiority by destroying the air defense systems and military infrastructures throughout the enemy country. To maintain airspace sovereignty, Command and Control (C2) centres rely on surface radars to provide them with a real-time air surveillance picture. Nevertheless adversaries now have unprecedented means to render 2D or 3D radar inoperable.
SPYNEL® Infrared Search and Track is a passive electro-optical system providing automatic detection, tracking and classification of a large variety of threats including aircrafts, helicopters and drones while remaining undetectable. With its real-time thermal panoramic video stream of the air space, SPYNEL is a reliable and mobile solution to alert and protect land forces in emergency situation. It can be easily used with Very Short-Range Air Defence (V-SHORAD) systems to provide a fully passive air defence solution – from detection to reaction, undetectable by the enemy.
Some of the specific challenges of ground-based air surveillance for Air Defense include:
During a conflict between two states, the first attack strategy is to establish air superiority by destroying the air defense systems and military infrastructures throughout the enemy country. To maintain airspace sovereignty, Command and Control (C2) centres rely on surface radars to provide them with a real-time air surveillance picture. Nevertheless adversaries now have unprecedented means to render 2D or 3D radar inoperable.
SPYNEL® Infrared Search and Track is a passive electro-optical system providing automatic detection, tracking and classification of a large variety of threats including aircrafts, helicopters and drones while remaining undetectable. With its real-time thermal panoramic video stream of the air space, SPYNEL is a reliable and mobile solution to alert and protect land forces in emergency situation. It can be easily used with Very Short-Range Air Defence (V-SHORAD) systems to provide a fully passive air defence solution – from detection to reaction, undetectable by the enemy.
SPYNEL-X is a passive Infrared Search and Track sensor (IRST) to be rapidly deployed in a crisis situation.
With a 20° vertical field-of-view, the system is designed to perform panoramic surveillance of the airspace, night and day with automatic detection, tracking and classification ranges of air targets compatible with the shooting ranges of Very Short Range Air Defence missile launchers. Driven by the easy-to-use Cyclope software suite, SPYNEL provides unique capabilities to detect and track multiple threats simultaneously including aircrafts, helicopters, drones, low air targets and highly manoeuvrable targets thanks to its 2Hz fast scanning rate.
Delivering real-time video analytics, soldiers understand easily the situation by visualizing the threats on the GUI. An alert is sent automatically as soon as a threat is detected.
Passive technology is paramount to keeping ground forces undetectable by the enemy.
One can note that SPYNEL’s thermal imaging technology, makes it possible to detect threats such as stealthy aircrafts, commonly undetectable by radars.
Fully flexible, SPYNEL offers a lightweight solution and is readily adaptable to the specific operational needs of ground-based air defence. Mounted on a tripod or on a vehicule, SPYNEL is easy to transport and to deploy.
The coupling of very short-range air defense system with SPYNEL IRST provides ground forces a fully passive ground-based air defense solution. This solution can be deployed in just a few minutes and remain undetectable by the enemy. SPYNEL provides azimuth/elevation angle to localize precisely the direction of the targets.
With CYCLOPE Software‘s Triangulation Plugin, the exact distance and altitude of each target is automatically calculated. Two SPYNEL sensors are required, and installed at a short distance from each other, to get the 3D location (GPS/altitude) of multiple targets in a fully passive mode. This creates a “protective bubble” around a very wide area, and provides the V-SHORAD with very accurate information on the targets.
To support airspace protection mission and maintain resilience in times of conflict, SPYNEL Infrared Search and Track provides reliable detection, tracking and classification of multiple threats. Highly mobile, SPYNEL reinforces situational awareness while remaining undetectable by the enemy.
HGH is a electro-optical devices global provider. The company provides wide area surveillance, industrial thermography and electro-optical test solutions.
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