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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADP023079

Entities

People

  • John Rapanotti
  • Marc Palmarim

Organizations

  • DRDC Valcartier

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armor
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Control Systems
  • Countermeasures
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dispersions
  • Environment
  • Explosives
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Grenade Launchers
  • Light Armored Vehicles
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Obscurants
  • Optical Detection
  • Smoke Screens
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - DoD 5G Program
  • 5G - Internet of Things
  • Directed Energy