BAE Systems has completed its latest series of live trials of its BATS system in Scotland, demonstrating the sense, decide, effect mission chain against uncrewed aerial threats through a single integrated command-and-control architecture.
The trials, conducted over a two-week period, included an integrated gun system and a kill-chain using electronic warfare (EW).
BAE Systems reports that during the trials, BATS’ fused information from multiple sensors into a common operational picture, enabling operators to detect, identify and track aerial objects while distinguishing threats from non-threatening activity. Operators were able to confirm the identification of different categories of drones and deploy the appropriate effect for each threat, the company said. The systems’ non-kinetic response was also successfully tested, integrating EW and software-defined radio technologies.
The trials follow BATS integration and deployment testing in July.
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