OpenWorks Engineering has announced the launch of its latest autonomous optics product, Vision Pace.
Designed to enhance dynamic multi-threat engagement, Vision Pace offers microradian precision targeting to kinetic defeat chains, marking a step-change for layered air defence, said the company in a press release. The development is intended to provide capability to expeditionary force protection, GBAD, SHORAD, and M-SHORAD across land and naval domains.
“Vision Pace achieves ultra-high performance through its low friction direct-drive positioner and AI-powered stabilisation technology, leveraging OpenWorks’ proven and advanced AI classifiers and trackers. Building upon the widely deployed and highly modular approach to OpenWorks’ Vision Flex product family, Vision Pace is also configurable to meet customer requirements with the support of OpenWorks’ global technical support team. The approach to system architecture allows the integration of wide ranging third-party primary detectors, sensors, classifiers and effectors along with OpenWorks’ proven EO and IR imagers. “
One such configuration on display at DSEI includes the integration of Thales’ TrueHunter Gimbal Sight sensor head which excels in long range multi-spectral observation, acquisition and target engagement through the most challenging environments, day and night. TrueHunter Gimbal Sight’s state-of-the-art sensors include high-resolution daylight colour cameras, a cooled thermal imager (both with continuous zoom), SWIR sensor, laser rangefinder, laser pointer and a laser target designator.
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) earlier in the year to support a partnership that will see OpenWorks fuse inputs from Thales’ suite of sensors with an advanced MESA radar from Echodyne to provide a comprehensive multi-target detect, recognise, track and target capability at speed and at distance.
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