Dazzle and Obscuration Strategies for Light Armoured Vehicles
Abstract
Battlefield obscuration strategies, optimized for Main Battle Tanks in traditional high intensity conflicts, are inadequate when applied to Light Armored Vehicles. LAVs are vulnerable to many threats and sufficiently different in design, capability and battlefield environment to benefit significantly from new strategies. Factors influencing this requirement include: i) the development of sensors with increasing accuracy and precision, ii) the need to minimize obscurant interference with vehicle sensors and other countermeasures, including active armor and explosive reactive armor, iii) the need to develop hemispherical obscurant coverage extending into the millimeter wave range, iv) grenades are needed to better match the increased tempo from greater vehicle speed, mobility and turret slew rate, v) the automatic configuration and selection of grenade burst patterns based on on-board processing and vehicle networks. Spectral coverage in the visible to long-wave infrared regions is adequate, but trends in missile design are leading to the development of hybrid seekers including, laser designating, MMW seeking and imaging-infrared seeking capability accelerated by MEMS technology. With increased tempo, the time needed to achieve full obscuration becomes critical. Dazzling of a detected threat can be used to disrupt aiming and firing a second missile until full obscuration is achieved. Dazzling can also be used with the laser-illumination detection of optical systems. A generic threat response, based on dazzling and visible/IR/MMW grenades is preferred because of the large number of possible threats and the difficulty in developing practical identification strategies. New dazzling and obscuration strategies, based on extensive knowledge acquired through field trials, `will be analyzed and developed using ModSAF. These new strategies and the approach used to develop them will be discussed in the paper.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADP023079
Entities
People
- John Rapanotti
- Marc Palmarim
Organizations
- DRDC Valcartier