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From September 14-17, 2021, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will participate in the DSEI London Exhibition, where it will exhibit a variety of systems.

In the following article we present the main ones:

“Next-Generation Combat Vehicle” Suite

Rafael’s suite for future combat vehicles is taking center stage this year at the company’s display. Responding to demands from the field, Rafael is offering a Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Suite – NGCV-S – which offers integrated protection, lethality, situational awareness, and network for enhanced mission effectiveness, even in GPS-denied scenarios, combining a mix of the most advanced, innovative, and effective solutions available ‒ all developed by Rafael.

Key features of modular suite “NGCV-S”:

• 30/40mm automatic cannon with ABM capability
• A launcher for SPIKE anti-tank multi-purpose guided missiles 
• Advanced armor protection, including TROPHY, the world’s only operational active protection system 
• The Fire Weaver networked combat system with sophisticated autonomous capabilities that connects all types of sensors and shooters over any tactical radio in real-time
• The Spike FireFly miniature, portable, BLOS close-combat reconnaissance, and loitering munition
• The BNet SDR communication system 

Spike ER2 and NLOS missiles 

The next presentation will be Rafael’s Spike ER2 (10km) and NLOS (32km), tactical, electro-optical, multi-platform, multi-purpose missiles, addressing the global trend of helicopter platform conversion from utility to assault, as well as platform upgrades. 

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Broadband IP MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork) Software Defined Radio

On display will also be the BNET patented communication system, supporting simultaneous and robust data, voice & video services with multiple auto relays. Bnet is an advanced Broadband IP MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork) Software Defined Radio for tactical operations. 

With a patented technology – modular, multi-band, and multi-channel, BNET is a net-centric, spectrum-aware system for vehicular and airborne platforms, headquarters, and dismounted soldiers. 

BNET enables all radios of land, sea, and air units to participate in a single, seamless, scalable MANET network. This enables a network rate of 100Mbps while facilitating the formation of a single “flat” network, scaling up to thousands of radios.

Drone Dome

In the air defence realm, Rafael will showcase its air defence systems, including the Drone Dome counter-drone system, already operational in a number of countries around the world both in civilian and military applications.

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Sea Breaker

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. unveils Sea Breaker, a 5th generation long-range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, enabling significant attack performance against a variety of high-value maritime and land targets.

Sea Breaker provides surgical, pin-point precision strikes from stand-off ranges of up to 300 km. It features an advanced Imaging Infra-Red (IIR) seeker, ideal for engagement of maritime and land targets, stationary or moving, in advanced Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) arenas, and in littoral or brown water, including archipelago, as well as for engagements in which previous generation RF-seeker-based missiles are not effective.

Sea Breaker can be launched from naval platforms, varying in size, from fast attack missile boats to corvettes and frigates. The land version is a central part of the shore defence, based on Rafael’s highly mobile SPYDER launchers. The battery architecture supports stand-alone launchers or operation as an integrated solution, with a command and control Unit (CCU) and various sensors, based on customer requirements.

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Using Artificial Intelligence, Sea Breaker performs deep-learning and big data-based scene-matching, enabling Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA) and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). The system has full operational capability in GNSS-denied arenas, in all weather conditions. Further, the missile is ECM immune and jam-resilient, while its mission profile enables sea-skimming and terrain-following low-level flight above ground.

Flying at high subsonic speeds, Sea Breaker has a multi-directional, synchronized full sphere attack capability with a 250 lb. penetration, blast, and fragmentation warhead, making a single hit effective enough to neutralize a frigate-sized ship.

The missile’s datalink supports real-time man-in-the-loop decision-making and tactical updates. It also features a mid-flight abort capability and Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).

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