Collaborating Missiles in a C31 net - Final report
Publish date: 2005-01-01
Report number: FOI-R--1826--SE
Pages: 57
Written in: Swedish
Abstract
A system of collaborating missiles, with a combined surveillance and attack capability, a highly autonomous target recognition functionality and information exchange between individual missiles, will present new possibilities for target identification and target selection. Communication with an external command and control network will further increase the system´s total effectiveness. Target engagement can be fully autonomous or, more likely, semiautonomous with an operator linked to the network. A collaborating missiles system shows good potential against moving targets, particularly if the missiles can interact with surveillance UAVs and the C31 system during the attack. Algorithms to control collaborating autonomous missile systems are not exclusively for weapon systems. They can also be applied to UAV and UGV control systems.