Rafael demonstrates advanced tactical radio, sensor-to-shooter capabilities to German Army

The company completed the second phase of Germany’s Transparent Battlefield study and performed a demonstration of its BNET and Fire Weaver systems 

Rafael demonstrates advanced tactical radio, sensor-to-shooter capabilities to German Army

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Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced last week that it has completed the second phase of Germany’s Transparent Battlefield study and conducted a demonstration of BNET software defined radio (SDR) communication and the company's Fire Weaver sensor-to-shooter system for the German Army. 

The second phase demonstration, which was held in November, included live traffic from the Aeronautics Pegasus Drone, along with the Fire Weaver sensor-to-shooter system, all carried over BNET hand-held and vehicular SDRs. The event was hosted by Atos Information GmbH, which acts as the prime contractor for the Transparent Battlefield study, with the company's C2 software used as an integral part of the demonstration. 

As Israel Defense reported in December 2019, Rafael partnered with Atos for the creation of the Transparent Battlefield project in which unmanned aerial systems and combat vehicles are used to create a 3D picture of mobile operations in real-time. The work is being performed for the German Federal Office of German Army Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support. Following the completion of the first and second phases, further phases are expected to take place in the coming years.

Yoav Wermuth, VP and head of Rafael’s C3I directorate said "Today’s battlefields are undergoing far-reaching changes that affect the operational needs of land, air and naval forces, with newly emerging real-time applications, such as sensor-to-effector cycle closure systems. Rising to meet these challenges, and relying on decades of experience in the development of C4I solutions, Rafael has developed the BNET Family, enhanced with patented technology, and the Fire Weaver, a high-precision, three-dimensional, GPS-independent common visual language system." 

"Integration of these systems into the German Army will lead to a number of significant changes – it will provide a common visual language among different types of units, not only from the German Army, but also from allied forces, which share the same threats and missions, connecting multiple sensors and shooters on one single 'flat' network," Wermuth said. 

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