Chemring has launched a whole-mission support and information system called Viper, the world’s first Electronic Warfare (EW) manpack geofencing capability.
Viper’s geofencing technology provides operators with improved accuracy for superior target precision.
Traditionally, EW operators would expect to analyse all signals regardless of their significance. Viper allows operators to focus on a specific area of interest, such as a valley or building, which significantly reduces the task, time burden, communications, and reporting loads.
Viper’s path profile tools process terrain height against relative radio frequency (RF) to pinpoint ideal locations for EW data collection nodes to support pre-mission planning and real-time mission adaptation, enabling commanders and operators to respond faster to the evolving battlefield situation.
The new technology automates processes that would have previously been undertaken by the operator and has been developed to remove the issues of complex RF-data presentation and information access.
The technology is integrated into Chemring's Resolve EW system.
“Viper is another market-first for us as it delivers a level of EW capability usually associated with larger systems," Eric Herron, Regional Manager, at Chemring Technology Solutions, said. "We believe that we have created the most capable and user-friendly EW manpack system, offering the next step to counter current and evolving threats.
"Viper delivers a highly automated and intuitive system that requires minimal operator input, so that they do not have to wade through large amounts of data capture and the noise on the RF spectrum, but can instead focus on genuine signals of interest to find that needle in a haystack much faster."
For more information on Chemring, see ADM's interview with Chemring Australia managing director Joe Farrah in From the Source.