Precision Strike Systems[LOITERING]
An aircraft that searches, holds over the area, and delivers its effect only when the operator confirms the target.
- Loiter time
- Undisclosed
- Operating radius
- Undisclosed
- Payload class
- Undisclosed
- Launch
- Tube, unprepared ground
Overview
A loitering munition closes the gap between finding a target and engaging it. It arrives, stays on station long enough to be certain, and commits from a position the target cannot anticipate, all on the decision of the operator watching the feed.
It launches from a tube on unprepared ground, flies a search pattern or a route, and can be waved off and returned to the loiter at any point before commit. Nothing is released without a human instruction.
System qualities
01 / 04
The operator commits, always
The system finds and tracks; a person decides. Abort is available until the final moments, and an aborted run returns to the loiter.
02 / 04
Time to be certain
Endurance on station is what separates a strike from a guess. The aircraft is sized to wait, not just to arrive.
03 / 04
Launches from where you are
A tube on a tripod, on a vehicle or on a boat. No runway, no launcher vehicle, no prepared site.
04 / 04
Holds the track
Onboard tracking keeps a moving target centred through the terminal phase even if the link degrades.
Specifications
Figures marked undisclosed or on request are released against a stated requirement.
System
- Configuration
- Tube-launched, pop-out wings
- Launch
- Ground, vehicle or maritime
Performance
- Loiter time
- Undisclosed
- Operating radius
- Undisclosed
- Cruise speed
- Undisclosed
- Time from launch to target acquisition
- Undisclosed
Payload
- Class
- Undisclosed
- Fuzing
- Undisclosed
Seeker
- Sensor
- Day and thermal
- Tracking
- Onboard, moving targets
- Field of view
- Undisclosed
- Optical zoom
- Undisclosed
Control
- Engagement
- Operator authorised; abort until commit
- Abort
- Available until the final run; an aborted run returns to the loiter
Link
- Command and video
- Encrypted
- Video latency
- Undisclosed
Documentation
- Precision Strike Systems overviewAvailable on request
Applications
Works with
These are built to operate together, on one network and one picture.
Search, strike, vanish.