Rheinmetall, all about the new Shorad and V-shorad defense radar
The Ammr radar is ready, Rheinmetall Italia's latest radar system for short and very short range air defense. Here are the details
At its headquarters in Rome , Rheinmetall Italia has practically completed the development of the AESA Multi-Mission radar (Ammr) for short and very short range air defense systems.
Compared to radars of the past, it is a fixed radar that carries out an electronic scan of space, observes the target by pointing the beam in various directions according to a scanning strategy capable of dynamically adapting to continuous changes in the surrounding air situation.
The system responds to highly challenging current and emerging short- and very-short-range air threats: the new radar successfully detects and processes mini and micro unmanned aerial vehicles; incoming rockets, artillery and mortars engaged in high-angle attacks; as well as air/surface weapons and cruise missiles.
Initially financed with funds from Mise Law 808 , Rheinmetall's radar is a product to which the Italian state contributed to starting the project, now ready for series production.
And next month the company will have the opportunity to demonstrate its capabilities to the Italian Army during the "Counter UAS on the move" call at the Nettuno range. The Italian Army needs to counter drones through moving short-range defense systems. On this occasion the company aims to demonstrate the radar's ability to work both in a fixed and moving configuration, installed on mobile platforms such as wheeled vehicles, tracked vehicles…
All the details.
FEATURES
Rheinmetall Italia's Aesa multi-mission radar is a cutting-edge modular radar that offers superior performance and ease of use, as well as integration into a wide range of platforms. It can track and classify multiple threats at once.
By classification we mean the ability of the radar to determine the classification of the target which can be an aircraft, drone, helicopter or missile or mortar and so on. The ability to classify targets is carried out by the radar in a completely automatic manner, thanks to algorithms implemented in the artificial intelligence radar, appropriately fed by the kinematic (speed, direction, etc.) and dimensional data of the target detected by the radar itself. Thanks to this information, the radar is able to maximize the probability of shooting down the target by the rest of the chain. Depending on whether it is a plane, a helicopter or a drone, the command post and the cannon are in turn able to apply algorithms that maximize killing.
Ammr is designed to operate in stationary or mobile mode, even under grueling environmental and disturbance conditions. Furthermore, it is equipped with cutting-edge electronic countermeasures. The radar is completely defined via software, with a configuration capable of adapting to the specific operational scenario. It can be easily updated in the future to keep pace with evolving threat scenarios.
The fact that it is multimission is expressed in the ability of this radar to perform different tasks simultaneously: while it searches for air targets up to 35km, at the same time it can dedicate electromagnetic energy against some targets deemed threatening by the algorithms implemented within the AI-based radars that further improve the radar's performance against these targets.
THE TARGET
The radar is also particularly effective against the asymmetric threats represented by drones and mortars, central in the geopolitical context of the current ongoing conflicts, from Ukraine to the Middle East. Mortars and drones can be purchased by anyone, transported easily (they do not require logistical infrastructure worthy of an army or air force) and can be fired or taken off from any location.
Precisely with mortars, Rheinmetall carried out a test campaign in which the company launched several mortars and the radar responded with a detection rate of 100%. Although the radar is completely unmanned, as is the cannon, there are operators in the command post. Where the mortar aims at the command post, the effectiveness of the defense system primarily goes in the direction of the protection and health of the operators.
Following a comparison with various competitors (German and Israeli), for this type of application the radar has no equals in terms of performance and costs according to the company led by Alessandro Ercolani.
AUSTRIA AMONG THE FIRST CUSTOMERS
As an initial installment, Rheinmetall sold 7 radars in a contract with Austria and has already made further sales in Europe and the Middle East. Numbers that coincide with series production and marketing.
RESPONDING TO THE REQUESTS OF THE NATO ARMIES
Finally, the importance of on-the-move performance is crucial to meet the needs of NATO armies in current scenarios which increasingly require mobility of operations. In the current concept, there is no longer just a defense position, but rather a convoy that moves and must be followed.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/rheinmetall-tutto-sul-nuovo-radar-per-la-difesa-shorad-e-v-shorad/ on Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:02:46 +0000.